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1,483 | 82_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The novel begins in England during the reign of King Richard I, also known as Richard the Lion-Hearted . Scott provides some historical background for the politics of the time and places the action somewhere near the end of Richards reign when he is returning from the Crusades. Englands Saxon population is under the co... | [
"Thus communed these; while to their lowly dome,\n The full-fed swine return'd with evening home;\n Compell'd, reluctant, to the several sties,\n With din obstreperous, and ungrateful cries.\n Pope's Odyssey",
"In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the\nriver Don, there ex... |
1,484 | 82_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Norman horsemen catch up with Gurth and Wamba. One of them is a Cisterian monk dressed in fine clothes. The other is a Knight Templar. The two, attended by several others, demand to know where they will be able to stay for the night and ask where Cedric the Saxon lives. Knowing his master Cedrics hatred of Normans,... | [
"A Monk there was, a fayre for the maistrie,\n An outrider that loved venerie;\n A manly man, to be an Abbot able,\n Full many a daintie horse had he in stable:\n And whan he rode, men might his bridle hear\n Gingeling in a whistling wind as clear,\n And eke as loud, as doth the chapell bell... |
1,485 | 82_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cedric is in his home, Rotherwood, impatiently waiting for his servants to come home. He is also displeased that his ward Rowena is late for supper. His thoughts are interrupted by the blast of a horn. Then the gatekeeper announces that Prior Aymer of the Abbey of Jorvaulx, Brian de Bois-Guilbert, and a small party of ... | [
"Then (sad relief!) from the bleak coast that hears\n The German Ocean roar, deep-blooming, strong,\n And yellow hair'd, the blue-eyed Saxon came.\n Thomson's Liberty",
"In a hall, the height of which was greatly disproportioned to its\nextreme length and width, a long oaken table, formed of planks\nr... |
1,486 | 82_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When the richly dressed guests enter Cedrics hall, he receives them politely but without any warmth. He then scolds Gurth and Wamba for being late. When Rowena enters to join in the meal, Bois-Guilbert stares at her beauty. In response, she draws a veil over her face. Cedric notices the interchange and is annoyed with ... | [
"With sheep and shaggy goats the porkers bled,\n And the proud steer was on the marble spread;\n With fire prepared, they deal the morsels round,\n Wine rosy bright the brimming goblets crown'd.\n * * * * *\n Disposed apart, Ulysses shares the treat;\n A trivet table and ignobler seat,\n ... |
1,487 | 82_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The stranger at Cedrics gate is Isaac of York. Although he is a Jew, Cedric refuses to turn him away into the stormy night. The Norman guests protest at his being admitted and Cedric makes him sit at a separate table. Only the Palmer takes pity on the drenched and exhausted Jew. The Palmer names five knights who have d... | [
"Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions,\n senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with\n the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the\n same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as\n a Christian is?\n --Merchant of Venice",
"Oswal... |
1,488 | 82_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On his way to bed, the Palmer is asked to accompany Cedrics servants to the kitchen for more drink and gossip. A message is sent to him by Lady Rowena, demanding his presence. She wants more news of Ivanhoe since she heard the Palmer mention Ivanhoes courageous exploits. All that the Palmer tells her is that Ivanhoe, h... | [
"To buy his favour I extend this friendship:\n If he will take it, so; if not, adieu;\n And, for my love, I pray you wrong me not.\n --Merchant of Venice",
"As the Palmer, lighted by a domestic with a torch, passed through the\nintricate combination of apartments of this large and irregular mansion,\n... |
1,529 | 82_chapters_7_-_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | These chapters are largely descriptive and do little to advance the plot of the story. The busy arena where the knights will display their skill is brilliantly described. The challengers, Bois-Guilbert, Front-de-Boeuf, Grantmesnil, Malvoisin, and Ralph de Vipoint, are introduced and described as seasoned Norman knights... | [
"Knights, with a long retinue of their squires,\n In gaudy liveries march and quaint attires;\n One laced the helm, another held the lance,\n A third the shining buckler did advance.\n The courser paw'd the ground with restless feet,\n And snorting foam'd and champ'd the golden bit.\n The sm... |
1,492 | 82_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As soon as Ivanhoe, in the guise of the Disinherited Knight, reaches his tent on the first day of the tournament, he is presented with the rich armor, weapons, and horses of the knights he has defeated. He accepts his rewards from four of the five knights. He refuses the gifts of Bois-Guilbert, however, and sends a mes... | [
"Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls\n The sick man's passport in her hollow beak,\n And in the shadow of the silent night\n Doth shake contagion from her sable wings;\n Vex'd and tormented, runs poor Barrabas,\n With fatal curses towards these Christians.\n --Jew of Malta",
"Th... |
1,493 | 82_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On his way back to Ashby, poor Gurth is attacked by four men who steal the money he carries, both his gold coins and that belonging to Ivanhoe. The thieves question him about where he got the money. When Gurth tells about Rebeccas kindness, the thieves refuse to believe that any Jew would return a payment on a loan. Gu... | [
"1st Outlaw: Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about you;\n If not, we'll make you sit, and rifle you.\n Speed: Sir, we are undone! these are the villains\n That all the travellers do fear so much.\n Val: My friends,--\n 1st Out: That's not so, sir, we are your enemies.\n 2d Out: Peace!... |
1,494 | 82_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After the combats of the first day at Ashby, the crowds eagerly await the events of the next day. The excitement reaches a fever pitch when the Disinherited Knight is attacked simultaneously by Athelstane, Front-de-Boeuf, and Bois-Guilbert. With the help of another mysterious character, the Black Knight, who comes to h... | [
"The heralds left their pricking up and down,\n Now ringen trumpets loud and clarion.\n There is no more to say, but east and west,\n In go the speares sadly in the rest,\n In goth the sharp spur into the side,\n There see men who can just and who can ride;\n There shiver shaftes upon shield... |
1,531 | 82_chapters_13_-_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The revelation that Ivanhoe is the disguised winner of the tournament causes a great commotion and some fear in the minds of the Norman nobles. A castle once belonging to Ivanhoe that John had given to Front-de-Bouef is now the object of much speculation, for many think that Ivanhoe will demand it back. Prince John him... | [
"\"Heroes, approach!\" Atrides thus aloud,\n \"Stand forth distinguish'd from the circling crowd,\n Ye who by skill or manly force may claim,\n Your rivals to surpass and merit fame.\n This cow, worth twenty oxen, is decreed,\n For him who farthest sends the winged reed.\"\n --Iliad",
"The... |
1,532 | 82_chapters_16_-_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter introduces Friar Tuck, the jolly priest who is one of Robin Hood's men. Earlier in the novel, King Richard proved his valor at Ashby disguised as the Black Knight. After the victory, he quickly disappeared before his identity was questioned. In this scene, he is traveling in the forest when he meets the Cl... | [
"Far in a wild, unknown to public view,\n From youth to age a reverend hermit grew;\n The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell,\n His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well\n Remote from man, with God he pass'd his days,\n Prayer all his business--all his pleasure praise.\n --Parnell"... |
1,553 | 82_chapters_18_-_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Cedric first sees his son wounded, his natural paternal love is revived, but not wishing to reveal this to the spectators at Ashby, he keeps quiet. Later he learns that Ivanhoe is being taken care of by Rebecca and is relieved. Discovering that his swineherd Gurth has been helping Ivanhoe, Cedric has him bound wit... | [
"Away! our journey lies through dell and dingle,\n Where the blithe fawn trips by its timid mother,\n Where the broad oak, with intercepting boughs,\n Chequers the sunbeam in the green-sward alley--\n Up and away!--for lovely paths are these\n To tread, when the glad Sun is on his throne\n L... |
1,554 | 82_chapters_20_-_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As they make their way through the woods, Cedric and his party come upon Isaac and Rebecca accompanying a sick man. Rebecca is crying out loudly for help. Their bodyguard has deserted them in sheer fear of the outlaws who are known to inhabit the woods. Rebecca begs Rowena to help the sick man. The entire party is then... | [
"When autumn nights were long and drear,\n And forest walks were dark and dim,\n How sweetly on the pilgrim's ear\n Was wont to steal the hermit's hymn",
"Devotion borrows Music's tone,\n And Music took Devotion's wing;\n And, like the bird that hails the sun,\n They soar to heaven, and so... |
1,504 | 82_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Isaac of York has been thrown into a dark dungeon in Torquilstone Castle. Front-de-Boeuf demands a ransom of a thousand silver pounds, to which Isaac protests. The Normans threaten him with physical torture, so Isaac requests that his daughter Rebecca be sent with an escort to York to get the money. He is deeply upset ... | [
"My daughter--O my ducats--O my daughter!\n ------O my Christian ducats!\n Justice--the Law--my ducats, and my daughter!\n --Merchant of Venice",
"Leaving the Saxon chiefs to return to their banquet as soon as their\nungratified curiosity should permit them to attend to the calls of their\nhalf-satiat... |
1,505 | 82_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Elsewhere in Front-de-Boeufs castle, De Bracy tries his best to persuade Rowena to marry him. He threatens that if she does not accept him, the lives of Ivanhoe and Cedric will be forfeited. In the conversation, she learns that Ivanhoe is a prisoner in the same castle and breaks down. The bugle call interrupts this sce... | [
"Nay, if the gentle spirit of moving words\n Can no way change you to a milder form,\n I'll woo you, like a soldier, at arms' end,\n And love you 'gainst the nature of love, force you.\n --Two Gentlemen of Verona",
"The apartment to which the Lady Rowena had been introduced was fitted\nup with som... |
1,506 | 82_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rebecca meets the old hag, Urfried, in the little tower where she is imprisoned. Urfried makes the most frightening forecast for Rebecca, recounting her own terrible fate at the hands of Front-de-Boeufs father. Urfried, however, had submitted to the elder Front-de-Bouefs molestation, accepting the subsequent shame and ... | [
"I'll woo her as the lion woos his bride.\n --Douglas",
"While the scenes we have described were passing in other parts of the\ncastle, the Jewess Rebecca awaited her fate in a distant and sequestered\nturret. Hither she had been led by two of her disguised ravishers, and\non being thrust into the little cell... |
1,555 | 82_chapters_25_-_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The occupants of Torquilstone receive a letter signed by Gurth and Wamba, but sent by the mysterious Black Knight and Locksley; the letter demands the release of the prisoners. Front-de-Boeuf responds to the letter by asking that a priest be sent to hear the confessions of the prisoners before they are put to death. Wa... | [
"A damn'd cramp piece of penmanship as ever I saw in my life!\n --She Stoops to Conquer",
"When the Templar reached the hall of the castle, he found De Bracy\nalready there. \"Your love-suit,\" said De Bracy, \"hath, I suppose, been\ndisturbed, like mine, by this obstreperous summons. But you have come\nlater an... |
1,510 | 82_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Using flashback, Scott supplies the necessary information to link various events that have happened. Ivanhoe's actual whereabouts since being injured at the tournament have never been explicitly stated. But here it is revealed that Rebecca took the invalid Ivanhoe on as a charge, promising to use her powers of healing.... | [
"This wandering race, sever'd from other men,\n Boast yet their intercourse with human arts;\n The seas, the woods, the deserts, which they haunt,\n Find them acquainted with their secret treasures:\n And unregarded herbs, and flowers, and blossoms,\n Display undreamt-of powers when gather'd by ... |
1,511 | 82_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As the besiegers attack the Castle, Rebecca stands at the window to relate to Ivanhoe the exact sequence of events. He soon falls asleep. Rebecca, left to her own thoughts, tries to sort out her feelings for him. She realizes that she is beginning to love him. | [
"Ascend the watch-tower yonder, valiant soldier,\n Look on the field, and say how goes the battle.\n --Schiller's Maid of Orleans",
"A moment of peril is often also a moment of open-hearted kindness and\naffection. We are thrown off our guard by the general agitation of our\nfeelings, and betray the inten... |
1,537 | 82_chapters_30_-_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The battle rages on, with both parties fighting intensely. Front-de-Boeuf is seriously wounded in the battle. As he lies dying, the old hag Urfried accuses him of all kinds of sins, the worst being the murder of his own father. Hungry for revenge for wrongs done to her by his family, she sets fire to the castle. Both s... | [
"Approach the chamber, look upon his bed.\n His is the passing of no peaceful ghost,\n Which, as the lark arises to the sky,\n 'Mid morning's sweetest breeze and softest dew,\n Is wing'd to heaven by good men's sighs and tears!--\n Anselm parts otherwise.\n --Old Play",
"During the interva... |
1,514 | 82_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Early next morning the freed prisoners and their rescuers, the outlaws, meet in the forest. Robin of Locksley places Cedric on his left and the Black Knight on his right. The booty plundered from the castle is shared equally. Cedric refuses his share, saying that Rowena and he are grateful to Locksley for his help. He ... | [
"Trust me each state must have its policies:\n Kingdoms have edicts, cities have their charters;\n Even the wild outlaw, in his forest-walk,\n Keeps yet some touch of civil discipline;\n For not since Adam wore his verdant apron,\n Hath man with man in social union dwelt,\n But laws were mad... |
1,556 | 82_chapters_33_-_34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Prior Aymer is frightened when he is brought in to the camp, but is mostly disturbed because his beautiful, expensive clothes are ruined. Isaac is relieved to learn Rebecca is alive and listens carefully when the Prior offers, for an appropriate price, to use his friendship with the Knight Templar to free Rebecca. The ... | [
"---Flower of warriors,\n How is't with Titus Lartius?\n MARCIUS.--As with a man busied about decrees,\n Condemning some to death and some to exile,\n Ransoming him or pitying, threatening the other.\n --Coriolanus",
"The captive Abbot's features and manners exhibited a whimsical mixture\nof o... |
1,539 | 82_chapters_35_-_36 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Isaac of York is warned by his relation Nathan that Lucas Beaumanoir, Chief of the Order of Templars, is also present at Templestowe, where Rebecca is being held prisoner. Beaumanoir is a rigid knight who is insistent on Templar principles, a cruel enemy to the Moslems, and a strong hater of the Jews. Isaac brings a le... | [
"Arouse the tiger of Hyrcanian deserts,\n Strive with the half-starved lion for his prey;\n Lesser the risk, than rouse the slumbering fire\n Of wild Fanaticism.\n --Anonymus",
"Our tale now returns to Isaac of York.--Mounted upon a mule, the gift of the Outlaw, with two tall yeomen to act as his ... |
1,540 | 82_chapters_37_-_39 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The scene is set for Rebecca's trial. The Grand Master sits opposite a pile of logs, which will form the stake at which Rebecca will be burned alive if she is found guilty. The charges against Bois-Guilbert are read first, but he is excused on the grounds that Rebecca's evil magic has taken away his power of reason. Ot... | [
"Stern was the law which bade its vot'ries leave\n At human woes with human hearts to grieve;\n Stern was the law, which at the winning wile\n Of frank and harmless mirth forbade to smile;\n But sterner still, when high the iron-rod\n Of tyrant power she shook, and call'd that power of God.\n ... |
1,541 | 82_chapters_40_-_42 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In an earlier chapter, Prince John is seen losing the loyalty of most of his knights except that of Waldemar Fitzurse, who slips out of the banqueting hall to confront King Richard before he takes back his power. On their way to Athelstane's castle of Coningsburgh to bury him, the Black Knight and Wamba are ambushed by... | [
"Shadows avaunt!--Richard's himself again.\n Richard III",
"When the Black Knight--for it becomes necessary to resume the train of\nhis adventures--left the Trysting-tree of the generous Outlaw, he held\nhis way straight to a neighbouring religious house, of small extent\nand revenue, called the Priory of Sai... |
1,525 | 82_chapter_43 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rebecca's trial attracts a large crowd, including many of Robin Hood's men. Just as her situation seems hopeless, for no champion has offered to defend Rebecca, Ivanhoe rides into the arena. He challenges those who accuse the beautiful Jewess. Brian de Bois-Guilbert becomes an unwilling participant in the fight as a re... | [
"Be Mowbray's sins so heavy in his bosom,\n That they may break his foaming courser's back,\n And throw the rider headlong in the lists,\n A caitiff recreant!\n --Richard II",
"Our scene now returns to the exterior of the Castle, or Preceptory, of\nTemplestowe, about the hour when the bloody die w... |
1,526 | 82_chapter_44 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Richard, having intended to champion Rebecca himself, is detained by the Earl of Essex who warns him of John's evil plans. He arrives at the trial too late to fight, but brings with him a troop of soldiers and arrests Albert Malvoisin for plotting with John against him. He gives Lucas Beaumanoir the choice of exile or ... | [
"So! now 'tis ended, like an old wife's story.\n Webster",
"When the first moments of surprise were over, Wilfred of Ivanhoe\ndemanded of the Grand Master, as judge of the field, if he had manfully\nand rightfully done his duty in the combat? \"Manfully and rightfully hath\nit been done,\" said the Grand Mast... |
1,557 | 27780_chapters_1-6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The book begins with the narrator, Jim Hawkins, explaining his motive for telling this story: Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and other gentlemen have requested him to write down the details his experience with Treasure Island, since the treasure remains on the island. He proceeds by recounting a pirate that resided wit... | [
"AT THE \"ADMIRAL BENBOW\"",
"Squire Trelawney, Doctor Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having\nasked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from\nthe beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the\nisland, and that only because there is still treasure not yet li... |
1,558 | 27780_chapters_7-13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This part begins while Jim is staying at the Hall, the squires' estate, supervised by old Redruth, the gamekeeper, while Dr. Livesey is in London finding someone to take over his practice and Trelawney is in Bristol finding a ship and crew. A letter comes from Trelawney, indicating that the ship, the Hispaniola, is rea... | [
"I GO TO BRISTOL",
"It was longer than the squire imagined ere we were ready for the sea,\nand none of our first plans--not even Doctor Livesey's, of keeping me\nbeside him--could be carried out as we intended. The doctor had to go to\nLondon for a physician to take charge of his practice; the squire was\nhard at... |
1,559 | 27780_chapters_14-20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | By crossing a swamp, Jim believes he has escaped from Silver and thus can relax and enjoy exploring the mysterious island. This carefree attitude, however, is quickly impinged on, as he hears birds circling overhead that signal that the pirates are nearby. By hiding in a oak tree, he overhears Long John Silver, who is ... | [
"THE FIRST BLOW",
"I was so pleased at having given the slip to Long John, that I began to\nenjoy myself and look around me with some interest on the strange land\nthat I was in. I had crossed a marshy tract full of willows, bulrushes,\nand odd, outlandish, swampy trees; and had now come out upon the skirts\nof a... |
1,560 | 27780_chapters_21-27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After the captain returns from his conversation with Silver, he is angry to find out that everyone but Gray has abandoned their post. Next, he quickly begins to prepare for the upcoming battle by assigning different men to different sides. The most opening, the north side, is to be manned by Trelawney and Gray. Jim is ... | [
"THE ATTACK",
"As soon as Silver disappeared, the captain, who had been closely\nwatching him, turned toward the interior of the house, and found not a\nman of us at his post but Gray. It was the first time we had ever seen\nhim angry.",
"\"Quarters!\" he roared. And then, as we slunk back to our places, \"Gray... |
1,561 | 27780_chapters_28-34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Captured, Jim sees six men, the six pirates who are left, one of whom is extremely injured. Frightened, and seeing none of his friends, the narrator assumes that they must be dead. Long John Silver sits on the wall, with a pipe, and begins to talk to Jim. Surprisingly to Jim, Long John Silver begins to talk to him in a... | [
"IN THE ENEMY'S CAMP",
"The red glare of the torch lighting up the interior of the blockhouse\nshowed me the worst of my apprehensions realized. The pirates were in\npossession of the house and stores; there was the cask of cognac, there\nwere the pork and bread, as before; and, what tenfold increased my\nhorror,... |
1,562 | 27780_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Squire Trelawney, Doctor Livesey, and others have asked Jim Hawkins to write down his adventures. So Jim is going to start where it all began: at the Admiral Benbow inn, owned by Jim's father. One day, a tall, ragged, suntanned sailor walks into the inn. He is singing a song: "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest - Yo-h... | [
"AT THE \"ADMIRAL BENBOW\"",
"Squire Trelawney, Doctor Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having\nasked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from\nthe beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the\nisland, and that only because there is still treasure not yet li... |
1,563 | 27780_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The winter is bitter cold, and Jim's father is dying. One January morning, the captain is sitting at the beach with his telescope on his arm. Jim is setting the breakfast table when a pale man missing two fingers on his left hand comes in. The man sits down, orders a rum, and asks Jim about a friend of his named Bill, ... | [
"BLACK DOG APPEARS AND DISAPPEARS",
"It was not very long after this that there occurred the first of the\nmysterious events that rid us at last of the captain, though not, as you\nwill see, of his affairs. It was a bitter cold winter, with long, hard\nfrosts and heavy gales; and it was plain from the first that ... |
1,564 | 27780_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jim comes in with medicine for the captain. The captain begs Jim for some rum. Jim agrees because he doesn't want the captain to make a fuss and disturb Jim's poor father. The captain keeps raving about getting "the black spot" because Black Dog and some other friends of his want the captain's old sea-chest. The black ... | [
"THE BLACK SPOT",
"About noon I stopped at the captain's door with some cooling drinks and\nmedicines. He was lying very much as we had left him, only a little\nhigher, and he seemed both weak and excited.",
"\"Jim,\" he said, \"you're the only one here that's worth anything; and you\nknow I've always been good... |
1,565 | 27780_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jim tells his mother all about the captain's last words. They decide to go together into town to look for help. They're shocked that no one will go back with them to the Admiral Benbow. They are all too afraid, especially hearing the name of Captain Flint. The most anyone is willing to do is to ride to Doctor Livesey's... | [
"THE SEA-CHEST",
"I lost no time, of course, in telling my mother all that I knew, and\nperhaps should have told her long before, and we saw ourselves at once\nin a difficult and dangerous position. Some of the man's money--if he\nhad any--was certainly due to us, but it was not likely that our\ncaptain's shipmat... |
1,566 | 27780_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jim sneaks up to the riverbank next to the road that leads to the inn's door. He sees seven or eight guys running towards the inn. Three of them break down the door. The blind man seems to be the leader. One of them reports to the blind man that the captain is dead. The blind man orders them to search his body. They fi... | [
"THE LAST OF THE BLIND MAN",
"My curiosity, in a sense, was stronger than my fear; for I could not\nremain where I was, but crept back to the bank again, whence, sheltering\nmy head behind a bush of broom, I might command the road before our\ndoor. I was scarcely in position ere my enemies began to arrive, seven\... |
1,567 | 27780_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Doctor Livesey isn't at home. Jim and Mr. Dance find Doctor Livesey at the squire's house. The squire is named Mr. Trelawney. Mr. Dance tells Squire Trelawney the whole story about the men who invaded the Admiral Benbow Inn, Jim and his mother running away, both of them heading back on their own when the villagers woul... | [
"THE CAPTAIN'S PAPERS",
"We rode hard all the way, till we drew up before Doctor Livesey's door.\nThe house was all dark to the front.",
"Mr. Dance told me to jump down and knock, and Dogger gave me a stirrup\nto descend by. The door was opened almost at once by the maid.",
"\"Is Doctor Livesey in?\" I asked.... |
1,568 | 27780_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | So preparations begin for their sea voyage, but nothing goes quite as planned. Doctor Livesey goes to London to find another doctor to cover for him while he's away, and Squire Trelawney goes to Bristol to arrange for their ship. Jim is left behind to imagine what the map is going to lead them to. Finally he gets a let... | [
"I GO TO BRISTOL",
"It was longer than the squire imagined ere we were ready for the sea,\nand none of our first plans--not even Doctor Livesey's, of keeping me\nbeside him--could be carried out as we intended. The doctor had to go to\nLondon for a physician to take charge of his practice; the squire was\nhard at... |
1,569 | 27780_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After Jim has breakfast, Squire Trelawney gives him a job: he is to deliver a note to Long John Silver at the Spy-glass inn. Jim finds the inn easily. He feels shy about going inside, though: it's noisy and filled with sailors. Soon Jim sees a man coming out of the side room: a friendly-looking fellow with one leg cut ... | [
"AT THE SIGN OF THE \"SPY-GLASS\"",
"When I had done breakfasting, the squire gave me a note addressed to\nJohn Silver, at the sign of the \"Spy-glass,\" and told me I should easily\nfind the place by following the line of the docks, and keeping a bright\nlookout for a little tavern with a large brass telescope f... |
1,570 | 27780_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jim, Doctor Livesey, and Squire Trelawney all go over to the dock where the Hispaniola is moored. Jim observes that Squire Trelawney gets along well with the mate, Arrow, but not with the captain of the ship, Smollett. Captain Smollett soon levels with Squire Trelawney: he's not happy with the crew or his first mate. S... | [
"POWDER AND ARMS",
"The _Hispaniola_ lay some way out, and we went under the figureheads and\naround the sterns of many other ships, and their cables sometimes grated\nbeneath our keel, and sometimes swung above us. At last, however, we\nswung alongside, and were met and saluted as we stepped aboard by the\nmate,... |
1,571 | 27780_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Everyone aboard the ship is working hard to get things stowed away before the departure in the morning. One of the men addresses Long John Silver as "Barbecue" . They ask him to sing a song. Long John Silver starts in on the old song Jim's captain used to sing: "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottl... | [
"THE VOYAGE",
"All that night we were in a great bustle getting things stowed in their\nplace, and boatfuls of the squire's friends, Mr. Blandly and the like,\ncoming off to wish him a good voyage and a safe return. We never had a\nnight at the \"Admiral Benbow\" when I had half the work; and I was\ndog-tired whe... |
1,572 | 27780_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Long John Silver is in the middle of telling a story to the youngest sailor on board, Dick. He's telling Dick about his time serving under Captain Flint. Apparently most of the men under Flint's command are now aboard the Hispaniola - this very ship! Long John Silver says the pirating business has gone downhill. Look a... | [
"WHAT I HEARD IN THE APPLE BARREL",
"\"No, not I,\" said Silver. \"Flint was cap'n; I was quartermaster, along\nof my timber leg. The same broadside I lost my leg, old Pew lost his\ndeadlights. It was a master surgeon, him that ampytated me--out of\ncollege and all--Latin by the bucket, and what not; but he was h... |
1,573 | 27780_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A lot of people rush across the deck. Jim slips out of the barrel without being seen. He joins Doctor Livesey to look at the island coming into view. Long John Silver tells Captain Smollett that he has seen this island before. There is a safe place to dock on the south side. Captain Smollett hands Long John Silver a ch... | [
"COUNCIL OF WAR",
"There was a great rush of feet across the deck. I could hear people\ntumbling up from the cabin and the foc's'le; and slipping in an instant\noutside my barrel, I dived behind the foresail, made a double towards\nthe stern, and came out upon the open deck in time to join Hunter and\nDoctor Live... |
1,574 | 27780_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning Jim gets a clear look at the island: it's covered with grey, mournful-looking pine trees. There are also three rocky hills, the highest of which is the Spy-glass. The Spy-glass is the tallest spot on the island. It's sheer cliff on all sides, and the top is flat like a table. Jim hates the look of the ... | [
"HOW MY SHORE ADVENTURE BEGAN",
"The appearance of the island when I came on deck next morning was\naltogether changed. Although the breeze had now utterly ceased, we had\nmade a great deal of way during the night and were now lying becalmed\nabout half a mile to the southeast of the low eastern coast.\nGray-colo... |
1,575 | 27780_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jim looks around himself: the island is marshy and uninhabited. He comes across a glade of trees. He hears a rustle from a surprised bird and assumes that his shipmates are about to appear. He hides in a tree and listens. Two people are talking: Long John Silver and a sailor named Tom. Long John Silver is explaining so... | [
"THE FIRST BLOW",
"I was so pleased at having given the slip to Long John, that I began to\nenjoy myself and look around me with some interest on the strange land\nthat I was in. I had crossed a marshy tract full of willows, bulrushes,\nand odd, outlandish, swampy trees; and had now come out upon the skirts\nof a... |
1,576 | 27780_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jim sees a shadow jump behind a rock. Jim tries to retrace his steps back to the beach and the Hispaniola. The dark figure reappears and catches up with Jim. Jim is so afraid of Long John Silver that he decides not to call for help; instead, he turns to face the figure. Jim is totally surprised when the figure throws h... | [
"THE MAN OF THE ISLAND",
"From the side of the hill, which was here steep and stony, a spout of\ngravel was dislodged, and fell rattling and bounding through the trees.\nMy eyes turned instinctively in that direction, and I saw a figure leap\nwith great rapidity behind the trunk of a pine. What it was, whether\nb... |
1,577 | 27780_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At 1:30, two boatloads of sailors row ashore from the Hispaniola. One of them is humming an Irish marching song, "Lillibullero" . Tom Redruth comes to tell Doctor Livesey that Jim Hawkins has also slipped ashore. Doctor Livesey is worried for Jim's safety. Livesey feels restless and decides to use a tiny rowboat to go ... | [
"NARRATIVE CONTINUED BY THE DOCTOR--HOW THE SHIP WAS ABANDONED",
"It was about half-past one--three bells in the sea phrase--that the two\nboats went ashore from the _Hispaniola_. The captain, the squire, and I\nwere talking matters over in the cabin. Had there been a breath of wind,\nwe should have fallen on the... |
1,578 | 27780_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The tiny rowboat is having some trouble with the changing tide and the weight of the men aboard , so it starts to seem like it's going to sink. Captain Smollett suddenly remembers the ship's cannon: could the pirates use it to attack the fort? Doctor Livesey says the pirates couldn't possibly get it ashore. But he has ... | [
"NARRATIVE CONTINUED BY THE DOCTOR--THE JOLLY-BOAT'S LAST TRIP",
"This fifth trip was quite different from any of the others. In the first\nplace, the little gallipot of a boat that we were in was gravely\noverloaded. Five grown men, and three of them--Trelawney, Redruth, and\nthe captain--over six feet high, was... |
1,579 | 27780_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The landing party reaches the stockade just as a group of seven mutineers appear, led by Job Anderson. The mutineers seem really surprised, so Squire Trelawney, Doctor Livesey, Hunter, and Joyce all have time to fire first. One of the mutineers drops and the rest of them scatter at the gunfire. The landing party is rea... | [
"NARRATIVE CONTINUED BY THE DOCTOR--END OF THE FIRST DAY'S FIGHTING",
"We made our best speed across the strip of wood that now divided us from\nthe stockade, and at every step we took the voices of the buccaneers\nrang nearer. Soon we could hear their footfalls as they ran, and the\ncracking of the branches as t... |
1,580 | 27780_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ben Gunn sees the British flag and stops Jim before he can run and join his friends. Ben explains that he doesn't want to go straight to meet the Squire and everyone else until he has their word of honor that they'll strike a deal with him. Ben tells Jim to bring Doctor Livesey or Squire Trelawney to meet with him at t... | [
"NARRATIVE RESUMED BY JIM HAWKINS--THE GARRISON IN THE STOCKADE",
"As soon as Ben Gunn saw the colors he came to a halt, stopped me by the\narm and sat down.",
"\"Now,\" said he, \"there's your friends, sure enough.\"",
"\"Far more likely it's the mutineers,\" I answered.",
"\"That!\" he cried. \"Why, in a ... |
1,581 | 27780_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Through a hole in the wall, Jim can see Long John Silver and another pirate holding a white flag, which signals a truce. Captain Smollett thinks it's a trick, so he asks the two men what they want. The second man says that "Cap'n Silver" wants to make terms for a truce. Captain Smollett refuses to acknowledge Long John... | [
"SILVER'S EMBASSY",
"Sure enough, there were two men just outside the stockade, one of them\nwaving a white cloth; the other, no less a person than Silver himself,\nstanding placidly by.",
"It was still quite early, and the coldest morning that I think I ever\nwas abroad in; a chill that pierced into the marrow... |
1,582 | 27780_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Captain Smollett goes back into the fort and finds none of the men where they were supposed to be except Gray. He is surprised at their lack of discipline. They all start loading the muskets to prepare for battle. Captain Smollett says they have a good chance, since they're fighting from a protected place. Captain Smol... | [
"THE ATTACK",
"As soon as Silver disappeared, the captain, who had been closely\nwatching him, turned toward the interior of the house, and found not a\nman of us at his post but Gray. It was the first time we had ever seen\nhim angry.",
"\"Quarters!\" he roared. And then, as we slunk back to our places, \"Gray... |
1,583 | 27780_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The pirates don't attack again that day, so there's time for Doctor Livesey to tend to his patients: one of the pirates who got shot at the wall of the fort, Hunter, and Captain Smollett. Of those three, only Captain Smollett recovers - he's been badly injured, but he'll live. Even so, the captain is now out of the act... | [
"HOW MY SEA ADVENTURE BEGAN",
"There was no return of the mutineers--not so much as another shot out of\nthe woods. They had \"got their rations for that day,\" as the captain put\nit, and we had the place to ourselves and a quiet time to overhaul the\nwounded and get dinner. Squire and I cooked outside, in spite... |
1,584 | 27780_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jim finds that Ben Gunn's boat is light and floats well, but it's really hard to handle. He's really struggling to get the boat to go in the right direction. Luckily for Jim, the current brings his tiny boat right to the Hispaniola. Jim realizes that if he cuts the cope while it's pulled tight, it'll snap back and pull... | [
"THE EBB-TIDE RUNS",
"The coracle--as I had ample reason to know before I was done with\nher--was a very safe boat for a person of my height and weight, both\nbuoyant and clever in a sea-way; but she was the most cross-grained,\nlopsided craft to manage. Do as you pleased, she always made more leeway\nthan anythi... |
1,585 | 27780_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jim wakes up and finds himself about a quarter of a mile offshore of the southwest end of the island. He decides to row to shore but can't - there are so many rocks that it's not safe for him to get close. He also sees sea lions on the coast, which freaks him out. Jim decides to try rowing further north to an easier co... | [
"THE CRUISE OF THE CORACLE",
"It was broad day when I awoke and found myself tossing at the southwest\nend of Treasure Island. The sun was up, but was still hid from me behind\nthe great bulk of the Spy-glass, which on this side descended almost to\nthe sea in formidable cliffs.",
"Haulbowline Head and Mizzen-m... |
1,586 | 27780_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jim nearly gets thrown off into the sea when the pole that is supposed to keep the sails open - the jib - flies out and almost hits him. Jim crawls up the bowsprit to the deck. There he sees the two pirate watchmen. One of them, the red-capped man , is lying stiff on his back. The other, Israel Hands, is hunched agains... | [
"I STRIKE THE JOLLY ROGER",
"I had scarce gained a position on the bowsprit when the flying jib\nflapped and filled upon the other tack with a report like a gun. The\nschooner trembled to her keel under the reverse, but next moment, the\nother sails still drawing, the jib flapped back again and hung idle.",
"Th... |
1,587 | 27780_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Hispaniola arrives at the northern end of the island. Because they have no anchor, they have to wait until the tide goes out a bit so they can beach the ship. So Jim hangs out with Israel Hands. Israel wants Jim to throw O'Brien's body overboard because it's bad luck to have a corpse aboard, but Jim isn't strong en... | [
"ISRAEL HANDS",
"The wind, serving us to a desire, now hauled into the west. We could run\nso much easier from the northeast corner of the island to the mouth of\nthe North Inlet. Only, as we had no power to anchor, and dared not beach\nher until the tide had flowed a good deal farther, time hung on our\nhands. T... |
1,588 | 27780_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the top of the mast, Jim has a great view of the sea below him - and of Israel Hands's body up against the side of the ship. Jim feels sick and frightened. The knife in his shoulder is making him bleed, but it's Israel Hands's dead body that's really getting to him. Jim shudders and the knife comes loose - really, i... | [
"\"PIECES OF EIGHT\"",
"Owing to the cant of the vessel, the masts hung far out over the water,\nand from my perch on the crosstrees I had nothing below me but the\nsurface of the bay. Hands, who was not so far up, was, in consequence,\nnearer to the ship, and fell between me and the bulwarks. He rose once\nto th... |
1,589 | 27780_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jim is terrified. The pirates have taken the fort and the supplies. There are six pirates left alive. Five of them are flushed with drunkenness and one is pale - his head is bandaged, and Jim thinks it's the one who was wounded during that first battle, who ran off into the woods. Long John Silver pulls out his pipe, s... | [
"IN THE ENEMY'S CAMP",
"The red glare of the torch lighting up the interior of the blockhouse\nshowed me the worst of my apprehensions realized. The pirates were in\npossession of the house and stores; there was the cask of cognac, there\nwere the pork and bread, as before; and, what tenfold increased my\nhorror,... |
1,590 | 27780_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The pirate council outside takes a long time. Finally, the five pirates come back inside. The youngest one is holding something in his hand, which he gives fearfully to Long John Silver. It's the black spot , but it's been cut out of a Bible, which Long John Silver says is awful luck. It was Dick Johnson who cut the ci... | [
"THE BLACK SPOT AGAIN",
"The council of the buccaneers had lasted some time, when one of them\nre-entered the house, and with a repetition of the same salute, which\nhad in my eyes an ironical air, begged for a moment's loan of the torch.\nSilver briefly agreed, and this emissary retired again, leaving us\ntogeth... |
1,591 | 27780_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jim wakes up to a voice calling into the fort, announcing that Doctor Livesey is there. Jim is glad to see the Doctor, but he's also ashamed because of his desertion. Long John Silver greets him heartily. Doctor Livesey is coming to treat the pirates for their injuries and sickness. Long John Silver has a surprise for ... | [
"ON PAROLE",
"I was wakened--indeed, we were all wakened, for I could see even the\nsentinel shake himself together from where he had fallen against the\ndoorpost--by a clear, hearty voice hailing us from the margin of the\nwood:",
"\"Blockhouse, ahoy!\" it cried. \"Here's the doctor.\"",
"And the doctor it w... |
1,592 | 27780_chapter_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Long John Silver admits that he saw Doctor Livesey gesturing for Jim to make a run for it. Since Jim kept his promise, Long John Silver feels that Jim has saved his life, so he owes him. The pirates beckon Jim and Long John Silver over - they have breakfast going. Long John Silver tells the group that the Doctor and hi... | [
"THE TREASURE-HUNT--FLINT'S POINTER",
"\"Jim,\" said Silver, when we were alone, \"if I saved your life, you saved\nmine, and I'll not forget it. I seen the doctor waving you to run for\nit--with the tail of my eye, I did--and I seen you say no, as plain as\nhearing. Jim, that's one to you. This is the first glin... |
1,593 | 27780_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The pirates stop to take a rest after reaching the top of the hill. Tom Morgan says he's not feeling well; he's still thinking about Captain Flint. They start talking about the pirate captain again. Suddenly a high voice somewhere in the trees starts singing, "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest/ Yo ho ho, and a bottle... | [
"THE TREASURE-HUNT--THE VOICE AMONG THE TREES",
"Partly from the damping influence of this alarm, partly to rest Silver\nand the sick folk, the whole party sat down as soon as they had gained\nthe brow of the ascent.",
"The plateau being somewhat tilted toward the west, this spot on which we\nhad paused command... |
1,594 | 27780_chapter_33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | With this disappointment, the pirates turn against Long John Silver again. Long John Silver quietly hands Jim a pistol and tells him to prepare for trouble. Meanwhile the pirates have jumped into the pit looking for any traces of the treasure. All they find is a two-guinea piece - worth just over two British pounds. Ge... | [
"THE FALL OF A CHIEFTAIN",
"There never was such an overturn in this world. Each of these six men\nwas as though he had been struck. But with Silver the blow passed almost\ninstantly. Every thought of his soul had been set full-stretch, like a\nracer, on that money; well, he was brought up in a single second, dea... |
1,595 | 27780_chapter_34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning the group goes back and forth between the cave and the Hispaniola carrying their gold to the ship. Jim amuses himself by sorting the various coins from the treasure pile. They don't see any sign of the three remaining pirates - Tom Morgan, Dick Johnson, and a third unnamed dude. On the third night of t... | [
"AND LAST",
"The next morning we fell early to work, for the transportation of this\ngreat mass of gold near a mile by land to the beach, and thence three\nmiles by boat to the _Hispaniola_, was a considerable task for so small\na number of workmen. The three fellows still abroad upon the island did\nnot greatly ... |
1,557 | 27780_part_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrator, Jim Hawkins, begins the first chapter by saying that he is writing this history at the request of Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and other gentlemen, leaving out nothing but the location of the island, where some treasure still remains. Jim describes how a large, old sailor arrives one day to his father's... | [
"AT THE \"ADMIRAL BENBOW\"",
"Squire Trelawney, Doctor Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having\nasked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from\nthe beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the\nisland, and that only because there is still treasure not yet li... |
1,596 | 27780_part_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As Chapter 7 begins, Jim is staying at the squire's Hall for his protection and that of the map, while Dr. Livesey is in London to arrange for someone to take over his medical practice and Squire Trelawney is in Bristol to buy and outfit a ship. After a few weeks, Jim and Tom Redruth, the squire's trusted servant and h... | [
"I GO TO BRISTOL",
"It was longer than the squire imagined ere we were ready for the sea,\nand none of our first plans--not even Doctor Livesey's, of keeping me\nbeside him--could be carried out as we intended. The doctor had to go to\nLondon for a physician to take charge of his practice; the squire was\nhard at... |
1,597 | 27780_part_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In Chapter 13 Jim recalls waking in the morning to find the ship becalmed southeast of what he now begins to call Treasure Island, a place of dismal-looking woods and oddly shaped hills, whose appearance he finds unpleasant. There is no wind, so the men must get in boats and row, hauling the ship several miles up the i... | [
"HOW MY SHORE ADVENTURE BEGAN",
"The appearance of the island when I came on deck next morning was\naltogether changed. Although the breeze had now utterly ceased, we had\nmade a great deal of way during the night and were now lying becalmed\nabout half a mile to the southeast of the low eastern coast.\nGray-colo... |
1,598 | 27780_part_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the first chapter of the novel's fourth part , and in the two chapters that follow, Dr. Livesey is the narrator, relating the experiences of Trelawney's group that take place during Jim's separation from it. On board the ship in the early afternoon, Hunter tells the others that Jim has gone ashore, and they fear for... | [
"NARRATIVE CONTINUED BY THE DOCTOR--HOW THE SHIP WAS ABANDONED",
"It was about half-past one--three bells in the sea phrase--that the two\nboats went ashore from the _Hispaniola_. The captain, the squire, and I\nwere talking matters over in the cabin. Had there been a breath of wind,\nwe should have fallen on the... |
1,599 | 27780_part_v | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jim opens Chapter 22 by describing the casualties of the recent action. Five of the pirates are dead, a sixth so badly wounded that he dies despite Dr. Livesey's efforts to save him, and Hunter -- with a fractured skull and broken ribs -- will die that night without regaining consciousness. Captain Smollett is not fata... | [
"HOW MY SEA ADVENTURE BEGAN",
"There was no return of the mutineers--not so much as another shot out of\nthe woods. They had \"got their rations for that day,\" as the captain put\nit, and we had the place to ourselves and a quiet time to overhaul the\nwounded and get dinner. Squire and I cooked outside, in spite... |
1,561 | 27780_part_vi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When a torch is brought for light , Jim finds himself standing among the six remaining pirates, Silver and five others, one of whom was wounded in the attack. Jim fears that his friends are dead, and is reassured when Silver says they are not -- that they bargained with the pirates after both groups found that the ship... | [
"IN THE ENEMY'S CAMP",
"The red glare of the torch lighting up the interior of the blockhouse\nshowed me the worst of my apprehensions realized. The pirates were in\npossession of the house and stores; there was the cask of cognac, there\nwere the pork and bread, as before; and, what tenfold increased my\nhorror,... |
1,562 | 27780_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The story opens with Jim recalling and writing down the experiences he went through on a voyage to Treasure Island as a young boy. As requested by Squire Trelawney and Dr. Livesey, he takes up the task of recording all but one detail -- that of the true location of the island, as the treasure still remains buried there... | [
"AT THE \"ADMIRAL BENBOW\"",
"Squire Trelawney, Doctor Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having\nasked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from\nthe beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the\nisland, and that only because there is still treasure not yet li... |
1,563 | 27780_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Spring comes and with it a mysterious event that introduces Jim to a new facet of the Captains personality. Jims fathers health worsens with time, so Jim and his mother take charge of the Inn. On a frosty January morning, the Captain steps out of the Inn with his usual accessories quietly, as though the thought of Dr. ... | [
"BLACK DOG APPEARS AND DISAPPEARS",
"It was not very long after this that there occurred the first of the\nmysterious events that rid us at last of the captain, though not, as you\nwill see, of his affairs. It was a bitter cold winter, with long, hard\nfrosts and heavy gales; and it was plain from the first that ... |
1,564 | 27780_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As he recovers, the Captain continues with his urge to drink. Pleading for a drink from Jim, the Captain tries all the techniques possible to convince him to serve him a drink: From reminding Jim about the regular wage he earned from him, to befriending him and calling him his matey. Jim refused all of his requests, as... | [
"THE BLACK SPOT",
"About noon I stopped at the captain's door with some cooling drinks and\nmedicines. He was lying very much as we had left him, only a little\nhigher, and he seemed both weak and excited.",
"\"Jim,\" he said, \"you're the only one here that's worth anything; and you\nknow I've always been good... |
1,565 | 27780_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jim tells his mother all he knows about the chest. With the Captain dead, the chances of recovering the money are dim though not impossible. They have to act fast before the Black Dog and the blind beggar return and grab it. The thought of staying alone in the inn, with a dead body and the danger of the place being ran... | [
"THE SEA-CHEST",
"I lost no time, of course, in telling my mother all that I knew, and\nperhaps should have told her long before, and we saw ourselves at once\nin a difficult and dangerous position. Some of the man's money--if he\nhad any--was certainly due to us, but it was not likely that our\ncaptain's shipmat... |
1,566 | 27780_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The curiosity of Jim prevails even in these testing times. Hiding behind bushes, Jim sees seven or eight men running towards the Inn. Jim spots the blind beggar who orders the men to break down the door to get inside. When the marauders find Bill dead and the sea chest already opened and cleared of its treasure, the be... | [
"THE LAST OF THE BLIND MAN",
"My curiosity, in a sense, was stronger than my fear; for I could not\nremain where I was, but crept back to the bank again, whence, sheltering\nmy head behind a bush of broom, I might command the road before our\ndoor. I was scarcely in position ere my enemies began to arrive, seven\... |
1,567 | 27780_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On reaching Dr. Liveseys house, they are informed that he has gone to the Hall with Squire Trelawney. They finally track him down, and when Dr. Livesey inquired about Captain Flint, the Squire tells them that he was the blood-thirstiest buccaneer that ever sailed who was feared by one and all. The Captain, he said, had... | [
"THE CAPTAIN'S PAPERS",
"We rode hard all the way, till we drew up before Doctor Livesey's door.\nThe house was all dark to the front.",
"Mr. Dance told me to jump down and knock, and Dogger gave me a stirrup\nto descend by. The door was opened almost at once by the maid.",
"\"Is Doctor Livesey in?\" I asked.... |
1,568 | 27780_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The voyage to Skeleton Island/Treasure Island doesnt work out as fast as they planned. Neither does the plan to keep Jim with Dr. Livesey as he leaves for London to find a doctor to take care of his medical practice in his absence. Since the Squire was still detained in Bristol trying to obtain a sailing vessel and cre... | [
"I GO TO BRISTOL",
"It was longer than the squire imagined ere we were ready for the sea,\nand none of our first plans--not even Doctor Livesey's, of keeping me\nbeside him--could be carried out as we intended. The doctor had to go to\nLondon for a physician to take charge of his practice; the squire was\nhard at... |
1,569 | 27780_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jim was put to work night away when he is asked to deliver a note addressed to Long John Silver. Jim is overjoyed as he gets an opportunity to go outdoors. He finds his way to the Spy-glass and finds a tall, strong, smiling hunk with one good leg and the other cut off close to his hip, cheering the people at the inn. J... | [
"AT THE SIGN OF THE \"SPY-GLASS\"",
"When I had done breakfasting, the squire gave me a note addressed to\nJohn Silver, at the sign of the \"Spy-glass,\" and told me I should easily\nfind the place by following the line of the docks, and keeping a bright\nlookout for a little tavern with a large brass telescope f... |
1,570 | 27780_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | They board the Hispaniola. Jim observes that Mr. Arrow and Squire Trelawney have a good rapport. But it isnt the same with the Squire and the Captain-Captain Smollet. Smollet asks to speak with the Squire prior to the voyage. Smollet expresses his dissatisfaction without mincing words. He clearly tells the Squire that ... | [
"POWDER AND ARMS",
"The _Hispaniola_ lay some way out, and we went under the figureheads and\naround the sterns of many other ships, and their cables sometimes grated\nbeneath our keel, and sometimes swung above us. At last, however, we\nswung alongside, and were met and saluted as we stepped aboard by the\nmate,... |
1,571 | 27780_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After a busy night of getting ready for the voyage, they set sail. Jim finds all this very thrilling. When Long John Silver, at the request of his mates, sings the old sea song Jim was so familiar with. Jim momentarily travels back in his mind to Admiral Benbow and is reminded of the Captain. The anchor is drawn and th... | [
"THE VOYAGE",
"All that night we were in a great bustle getting things stowed in their\nplace, and boatfuls of the squire's friends, Mr. Blandly and the like,\ncoming off to wish him a good voyage and a safe return. We never had a\nnight at the \"Admiral Benbow\" when I had half the work; and I was\ndog-tired whe... |
1,572 | 27780_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jim stays there silently listening to Long John Silver talk. Silver recounts his experiences with Captain Flint. He says that he had lost his leg when he was a quartermaster with Flint. On the same broadside exchange of cannon fire, Pew lost his sight. He talks about Roberts men who changed the names of the ships. Jim ... | [
"WHAT I HEARD IN THE APPLE BARREL",
"\"No, not I,\" said Silver. \"Flint was cap'n; I was quartermaster, along\nof my timber leg. The same broadside I lost my leg, old Pew lost his\ndeadlights. It was a master surgeon, him that ampytated me--out of\ncollege and all--Latin by the bucket, and what not; but he was h... |
1,573 | 27780_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The call of land was the call of relief for Jim. He sneaks out of the barrel and jumps up on the open deck to join Hunter and Dr. Livesey on the bow. They look around, Jim is unable to believe his eyes considering the state he was in moments ago. They are approaching an island and when Captain Smollet asks the crew if ... | [
"COUNCIL OF WAR",
"There was a great rush of feet across the deck. I could hear people\ntumbling up from the cabin and the foc's'le; and slipping in an instant\noutside my barrel, I dived behind the foresail, made a double towards\nthe stern, and came out upon the open deck in time to join Hunter and\nDoctor Live... |
1,574 | 27780_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the morning, Jim sees the island has changed in appearance. He sees most of the island is covered with grey colored woods and tall pine trees. There were hills rising up above the vegetation and the rock named Spy-glass is the tallest by several hundred feet. It is a steep spire with it's top bluntly cut off The His... | [
"HOW MY SHORE ADVENTURE BEGAN",
"The appearance of the island when I came on deck next morning was\naltogether changed. Although the breeze had now utterly ceased, we had\nmade a great deal of way during the night and were now lying becalmed\nabout half a mile to the southeast of the low eastern coast.\nGray-colo... |
1,575 | 27780_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jim is thrilled as he is way ahead of Silver and his men. The strange land interests him. He is alone and makes a study of the surroundings curiously. Everything is new so him. The contorted trees, hills with craggy peaks, unknown flowing plants, deadly snakes, strange sounds of birds, everything. Amongst this the only... | [
"THE FIRST BLOW",
"I was so pleased at having given the slip to Long John, that I began to\nenjoy myself and look around me with some interest on the strange land\nthat I was in. I had crossed a marshy tract full of willows, bulrushes,\nand odd, outlandish, swampy trees; and had now come out upon the skirts\nof a... |
1,576 | 27780_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jim is suddenly aware that he is being trailed by a creature. He cannot tell if it is a man, a monkey, or a bear, but he is terrified. He thinks that he would prefer to die at the hands of Long John Silver, than some strange creature and retraces his steps to the boat. The figure reappears and Jim finds the creature ru... | [
"THE MAN OF THE ISLAND",
"From the side of the hill, which was here steep and stony, a spout of\ngravel was dislodged, and fell rattling and bounding through the trees.\nMy eyes turned instinctively in that direction, and I saw a figure leap\nwith great rapidity behind the trunk of a pine. What it was, whether\nb... |
1,577 | 27780_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As Jim is out on the island with Ben Gunn, the narrative of the story of the incidents on the Hispaniola is taken over and recorded by Dr. Livesey. As they are making plans to go to the island, Hunter informs them that Jim had already left to go ashore alone in one of the small boats. Shortly afterwards, six of the mut... | [
"NARRATIVE CONTINUED BY THE DOCTOR--HOW THE SHIP WAS ABANDONED",
"It was about half-past one--three bells in the sea phrase--that the two\nboats went ashore from the _Hispaniola_. The captain, the squire, and I\nwere talking matters over in the cabin. Had there been a breath of wind,\nwe should have fallen on the... |
1,578 | 27780_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The last trip, the doctor says, was the most difficult trip as the boat was overloaded with five grown men and all of the supplies. The strong water currents running westward make it much more difficult for them. Sailing with the ebb, on the other hand, would have taken them to the shore but closer to the area where Si... | [
"NARRATIVE CONTINUED BY THE DOCTOR--THE JOLLY-BOAT'S LAST TRIP",
"This fifth trip was quite different from any of the others. In the first\nplace, the little gallipot of a boat that we were in was gravely\noverloaded. Five grown men, and three of them--Trelawney, Redruth, and\nthe captain--over six feet high, was... |
1,579 | 27780_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The crew makes it to the beach and runs toward the Stockade. They could hear the foot steps of the mutineers behind them. At the request of the doctor, the Captain hands over his gun to the Squire and the doctor gives him his cutlass. The first glimpse of the Stockade also brings them face to face with Job Anderson and... | [
"NARRATIVE CONTINUED BY THE DOCTOR--END OF THE FIRST DAY'S FIGHTING",
"We made our best speed across the strip of wood that now divided us from\nthe stockade, and at every step we took the voices of the buccaneers\nrang nearer. Soon we could hear their footfalls as they ran, and the\ncracking of the branches as t... |
1,580 | 27780_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jim resumes the narration by telling how Ben Gunn was happy to see the Union Jack fluttering on top of the stockade. He tells Jim that his friends are in control of the stockade. Ben Gunn doesnt join Jim, instead he asks Jim to first talk to them about his demand he mentioned earlier and come back to him where Jim foun... | [
"NARRATIVE RESUMED BY JIM HAWKINS--THE GARRISON IN THE STOCKADE",
"As soon as Ben Gunn saw the colors he came to a halt, stopped me by the\narm and sat down.",
"\"Now,\" said he, \"there's your friends, sure enough.\"",
"\"Far more likely it's the mutineers,\" I answered.",
"\"That!\" he cried. \"Why, in a ... |
1,581 | 27780_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Two men, Silver and his lieutenant, stand outside the stockade waving a white flag. The Captain senses a sinister trick so he cautions the men and positions them strategically within the stockade. Then he asks Silver what he is up to. Silver explains that he has been chosen to be the Captain of the mutineers after Capt... | [
"SILVER'S EMBASSY",
"Sure enough, there were two men just outside the stockade, one of them\nwaving a white cloth; the other, no less a person than Silver himself,\nstanding placidly by.",
"It was still quite early, and the coldest morning that I think I ever\nwas abroad in; a chill that pierced into the marrow... |
1,582 | 27780_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Long John Silver disappears. When the Captain turns to his crew, he becomes furious on seeing the men have not stayed in the position he put them in, except Gray. Regaining his composure, the Captain addresses his men. He tells them that the mutineers could be back in an hour and that they have to fight them. He offers... | [
"THE ATTACK",
"As soon as Silver disappeared, the captain, who had been closely\nwatching him, turned toward the interior of the house, and found not a\nman of us at his post but Gray. It was the first time we had ever seen\nhim angry.",
"\"Quarters!\" he roared. And then, as we slunk back to our places, \"Gray... |
1,583 | 27780_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The mutineers did not regroup and attack again, as they expected. So the Captain and his men took time off to cook dinner and then help the wounded men. In spite of danger, they cook outside. Hunter doesnt regain his consciousness and breathes heavily. The Captains condition is not as bad as Hunters. He has a broken sh... | [
"HOW MY SEA ADVENTURE BEGAN",
"There was no return of the mutineers--not so much as another shot out of\nthe woods. They had \"got their rations for that day,\" as the captain put\nit, and we had the place to ourselves and a quiet time to overhaul the\nwounded and get dinner. Squire and I cooked outside, in spite... |
1,584 | 27780_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Handling the coracle (Gunn's small boat) was very difficult, though the boat is small and appropriate for a person of his size. He rows the boat with the water currents. He grasps the hawser when he gets closer to the Hispaniola. Suddenly it occurs to Jim that cutting the hawser means cutting free the huge Hispaniola. ... | [
"THE EBB-TIDE RUNS",
"The coracle--as I had ample reason to know before I was done with\nher--was a very safe boat for a person of my height and weight, both\nbuoyant and clever in a sea-way; but she was the most cross-grained,\nlopsided craft to manage. Do as you pleased, she always made more leeway\nthan anythi... |
1,585 | 27780_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jim finds himself floating at the southwest end of the island when he wakes up. He is a quarter of a mile away from the shore and thinks about paddling in. He changes his mind when he sees huge waves, carrying large shiny sea lions. In the meantime, Jim decides to approach land with the help of the current that moves n... | [
"THE CRUISE OF THE CORACLE",
"It was broad day when I awoke and found myself tossing at the southwest\nend of Treasure Island. The sun was up, but was still hid from me behind\nthe great bulk of the Spy-glass, which on this side descended almost to\nthe sea in formidable cliffs.",
"Haulbowline Head and Mizzen-m... |
1,586 | 27780_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jim climbs up along the side of the ship with great difficulty. He crawls along the bow spirit and makes his way to the deck. He doesnt see anybody on the deck except a bottle tumbling by. The Hispaniola gets a whiff of another wind and it shudders. Jim gets a glimpse of red cap and Israel Hands lying down in their dru... | [
"I STRIKE THE JOLLY ROGER",
"I had scarce gained a position on the bowsprit when the flying jib\nflapped and filled upon the other tack with a report like a gun. The\nschooner trembled to her keel under the reverse, but next moment, the\nother sails still drawing, the jib flapped back again and hung idle.",
"Th... |
1,587 | 27780_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jim learns the basics of sailing from Israel Hands. They settle down to have their meal when Hands tell Jim about jettisoning OBriens dead body. Jim tells him that he is not strong enough. Hands tries to justify OBriens death as a good thing but Jim refuses to accept his argument. Hands asks him to fetch him a bottle o... | [
"ISRAEL HANDS",
"The wind, serving us to a desire, now hauled into the west. We could run\nso much easier from the northeast corner of the island to the mouth of\nthe North Inlet. Only, as we had no power to anchor, and dared not beach\nher until the tide had flowed a good deal farther, time hung on our\nhands. T... |
1,588 | 27780_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hands rises just once in a lather of foam and blood before he sinks. This sight together with the pain of the wound, caused by Hands dagger, sickens Jim. What terrifies Jim most is the thought of falling into the water. He manages to regain his composure and learns that the knife wasn't stuck very deep. He pulls it out... | [
"\"PIECES OF EIGHT\"",
"Owing to the cant of the vessel, the masts hung far out over the water,\nand from my perch on the crosstrees I had nothing below me but the\nsurface of the bay. Hands, who was not so far up, was, in consequence,\nnearer to the ship, and fell between me and the bulwarks. He rose once\nto th... |
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