Resumo de Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

In the 18th century English sea coast town of Bristol, a young boy named Jim Hawkins lives with his mother at the Admiral Benbow, a small inn. Billy Bones, a wretched and delirious old sea captain, appears at the inn one day and falls dead from ?the black spot?, a pirate?s judgment of guilt for betrayal of his peers. While going through his sea chest, looking for money to settle his tab at the inn, Jim and his mother find a map and ship?s log book. Violent pursuers of those same articles arrive and ransack the inn, but Billy and his mother escape, and Billy takes the map and book to Dr. Livesey and Squire Trelawney for advice. They are excited to see that it?s a treasure map made by the infamous Captain Flint, to his fabulous treasure on Skeleton Island.
They immediately launch an expedition to the island on the ship Hispaniola. Trelawney has been duped by Long John Silver into hiring him and a crew of pirates, unknowing that Silver and his band had been after Billy Bones to get the map for themselves, and still plan to get Flint?s treasure by any means. On the voyage, overhearing their plans for mutiny, Jim tells all and Captain Smollett retains control of his ship. Reaching the island, Smollett devises a plan to get rid of the mutineers by sending them ashore, which suits Long John?s Sliver?s own plan to find and claim the treasure for himself. Jim sneaks away with them, but is scared by Silver and his pirates and runs away into the jungle. He hides and witnesses Silver?s murder of a sailor who refuses to join the mutiny, and flees deeper into the jungle. He meets a crazed man named Ben Gunn, marooned on the island three years earlier by Captain Flint.
Meanwhile, Smollett and his remaining honest men have left the ship and taken refuge in a rude stockade on the island, as a base of operations in their hunt for the treasure and protection from the pirates. Jim makes his way back to them and tells of his encounter with Ben. Long John Silver visits under a flag of truce to negotiate with the captain, but it degenerates into a quarrel and the pirates attack the stockade, determined to get the map and treasure, and sail away leaving the others marooned. Jim attempts to help by sneaking away to find Ben Gunn?s handmade boat and rows to the Hispaniola where he cuts the ship?s mooring ropes so the pirates can?t sail away. Jim comes close to discovery when drifting near the pirate?s camp, but safely catches the drifting ship. Upon boarding, Jim discovers that the two watchmen have come to fatal blows, and has to fight the survivor, Israel Hands. Jim kills Hands in a dramatic fight in the ship?s riggings, but is wounded. .
Jim returns to the stockade that night, to find it has been taken by Long John Silver and his crew. Silver tells Jim that Captain Smollett, Squire Trelawney, and Dr. Livesey have traded the treasure map and their provisions for their safe release after the pirates have overrun the stockade. Silver craftily proposes that Jim pretend to be his hostage, to appease the restless pirates into thinking he will be a valuable bargaining tool, and to assure the safety of Jim?s friends, thus giving Silver a foot in both camps. The pirates argue over Silver?s plans among themselves, and in their distrust give Silver the ?black spot?. But once again Long John Silver connives a way to not only survive but to take control of the pirates. He shows them that he has the map and saves himself, and Jim, from certain death at their hands, and inveigles himself into becoming their captain.
The next day the pirates set out to find the treasure, but to their dismay it has been freshly dug up, and only a few small coins remain around an empty hole. The pirates turn on Silver, but Squire Trelawney, the doctor, and their compatriots bound from the bushes and begin firing on the pirates. Several pirates are killed but three escape. The squire, doctor, and Captain Smollett spare Long John Silver and uneasily take him back into their confidence as he saved Jim?s life while Jim was held hostage. Jim still wants to trust the tricky old pirate, against his better judgment, as he is still fond of him in spite of his wicked ways.

The treasure is an immense fortune, taken by Captain Flint in years of sailing the Spanish Main, boarding and looting merchant ships. Jim and his mother?s future are assured of safety and security. In the three days it takes to load the Hispaniola for the voyage back to England, the fate of the three surviving mutineers is discussed. They would be hanged if returned to England, and it?s decided to leave them marooned on the island, to Ben Gunn?s delight. While anchored at a nearby Spanish American port for provisions, Long John Silver sneaks off the ship with Ben Gunn?s aid. Silver is carrying a quantity of the treasure he has stolen, and is never seen again. Jim and his friends sail home with Jim the wiser for his adventures, but satisfied in the knowledge that they are returning with the treasure of Skeleton Island.

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