Treasure Island vs. Treasure Planet

             "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest – Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!" (Stevenson, 1) This is a song that you hear throughout Robert Lois Stevenson's (RLS) novel, Treasure Island. A young boy accidentally falls into the world of pirates and treasure when he becomes the owner of a much sought after treasure map. The voyage of Jim Hawkins takes on adventures way out at sea and on an uncharted island far from his home at the Admiral Benbow Inn in England. Walt Disney Pictures takes this story and brings it to life onscreen adding some of their own twists. Here young Jim Hawkins, working at Benbow Inn on the planet Montressor, sets out on adventure in a boat that sails through galaxies in search of Treasure Planet, where the infamous treasure in Captain Flint lies. Although it is the plot that RLS's Treasure Island and Disney's Treasure Planet share, elements such as the beginning, setting, ending and characters vary from the book compared to the movie, making an obvious distinction between the two.
             Treasure Island is told by Jim Hawkins' own memories of the voyage. It begins with the introduction of the wayward sailor Billy Bones, who takes room and board at the Admiral Benbow. Throughout the sailor's time at the inn, he tells Jim of his journey's as well as warning him about the man with one leg. After his death, Jim and his mother find the key that opens the trunk where the treasure map was hidden. After the death of Bones, the Admiral Benbow is attacked, and Jim escapes with the map and goes onto find out that it is the map to find Captain Flint's treasure
             Treasure Planet begins with a young Jim of about four listening to the story of Treasure Planet from his animated 3-dimensional book. It then jumps to him as a young adult the day that a dying sky sailor named Billy Bones crash-lands at Benbow Inn. After being brought into the inn, he tells the boy "Beware t...

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