Treasure Island: Motif

In the book "Treasure Island" the most dominant literary feature is Motif. There are three different motif's. One motif is the color black, another is animals, and the last one is when Jim is alone. Whenever Jim is alone something critical happens almost always, like when he is in the apple barrel and he over hears the plan of mutiny against Smollet, or when Jim meets the blind beggar Pew who ends up giving Long John Silver the black spot Jim is alone. The color black is an example of motif because whenever the color black appears something bad is about to happen. For instance the bad pirates plag is black, and the black spot says how somebody is going to die.

The last example of motif is animals. In several moments in the book the author reffers to the pirates actions like animals, like when he says that they jumped over the fence like monkeys, or that they stared at him like sheep in a herd. All of these examples are motifs helping to explain the book and signals.