Why did Silver come to them with a white flag? of Nove Treasure Island by Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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Explanation:
Treasure Island” begins with a map of the island. Then there is a poem written to give a push to any purchaser of the book who is pausing before buying it. He says that children of this day will love stories of buccaneers as he did when he was a child.
The first chapter opens the writer, Jim Hawkins, stating that he was asked to write his account by Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of the men who were residents of the Admiral Benbow, the inn kept by his father. They asked him to tell the story, but to leave out the exact location of the island, because there is still treasure located on it. He starts his story with his meeting of the ominous old seaman. “I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow; a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man; his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat; his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails; and the saber cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. I remember him looking round the cove and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterward – Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest – Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”