ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Working Class Man, Jolly Roger, Buccaneer
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Jim is a man of honour and refuses to run away like the doctor suggest that he should. Pirates break their word, and are not men of honour (as silver shows us clearly in his disappearance at the end of the novel) These men down there, they couldn"t keep their word-no, not supposing they wished to" (pg. Jim and silver are the only ones that get to switch between camps, best adventure heroes adapting to chance in the story. How jim manages to get onto the hispaniola and beach it. Both are social climbers: jim rises from the sun of a ______ to becoming the trusted biographer and hero in the novel: silver keeps his own pub. Set up camp in a malarial swamp. Silver stabs men in the back. Mutineers were constantly being faced with their own violence, or the possibility of it occurring. No prudence; they don"t save their food or firewood(see ch.
