The Blue Lagoon ( novel ) - wikipedia The Blue Lagoon ( novel ) This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. ( Learn how and when to remove these template messages ) This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. ( October 2012 ) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( September 2014 ) The Blue Lagoon Author Henry De Vere Stacpoole Country Great Britain Language English Series Blue Lagoon trilogy Genre Romance Publisher T. Fisher Unwin Publication date 1908 Media type Print ( hardcover ) Pages 328 Followed by The Garden of God The Blue Lagoon is a romance novel written by Henry De Vere Stacpoole and was first published by T. Fisher Unwin in 1908. It is the first novel of the Blue Lagoon trilogy, which also includes The Garden of God ( 1923 ) and The Gates of Morning ( 1925 ). The novel has inspired several film adaptations, most notably The Blue Lagoon starring Brooke Shields as Emmeline and Christopher Atkins as Richard ( `` Dicky '' in the book ). Contents 1 Plot summary 2 Characters 3 Films 4 See also 5 References 6 External links Plot summary The story centers on two cousins, Dicky and Emmeline Lestrange, who are marooned with a galley cook on an island in the South Pacific following a shipwreck. The galley cook, Paddy Button, assumes responsibility for the children and teaches them how to survive, cautioning them to avoid the `` arita '' berries, which he calls `` the never - wake - up berries. '' Two - and - a-half years after the shipwreck, Paddy dies following a drinking binge. The children survive on their resourcefulness and the bounty of their remote paradise. They live in a hut and spend their days fishing, swimming, diving for pearls, and exploring the island. As the years pass, Dicky and Emmeline grow into physically mature young adults and begin to fall in love. Ignorant of their human sexuality, they do not understand or know how to express their physical attraction to one another. Eventually, they consummate their relationship. The author, Henry De Vere Stacpoole, describes their sexual encounter as having been `` conducted just as the birds conduct their love affairs. An affair absolutely natural, absolutely blameless, and without sin. It was a marriage according to nature, without feast or guests. '' Dicky becomes very attentive toward Emmeline, listening to her stories and bringing her gifts. Over several months they make love often and eventually Emmeline becomes pregnant. The couple does not understand the physical changes happening to Emmeline 's body and have no knowledge of childbirth. When the day comes for delivery, Emmeline disappears into the forest and returns with a child. They discover over time that the baby requires a name and they call him Hannah because they have only ever known an infant called by that name. Dicky and Emmeline teach Hannah how to swim, fish, throw spears, and play in the mud. They survive a violent tropical cyclone and other natural hazards of island life. Back in San Francisco, Arthur, Dicky 's father and Emmeline 's uncle, believes the two are still alive and is determined to find them, after recognizising a child 's tea set belonging to Emmeline which was retrieved by a whaler on an island. Arthur finds a captain willing to take him to the island and they set out. Meanwhile, Dicky, Emmeline, and Hannah row their lifeboat to the place where they had once lived with Paddy as children. Emmeline breaks a branch off the deadly arita plant as Dicky cuts bananas on the shore. While in the boat with her son, Emmeline fails to notice that Hannah has tossed one of the oars into the sea. The tide comes in and sweeps the boat into the lagoon, leaving Emmeline and Hannah stranded. As Dicky swims to them, he is pursued by a shark. Emmeline strikes the shark with the remaining oar, earning Dicky time to climb into the boat safely. Although they are not far from shore, the trio can not get back without the oars and they are unable to retrieve them from the water because of the shark. The boat is then caught in the current and drifts out to sea ; all the while Emmeline still grasps the arita branch. Sometime later, Arthur 's ship comes across the lifeboat and finds the three unconscious but still breathing. The arita branch is now bare save for one berry. Arthur asks, `` Are they dead ? '' and the captain replies, `` No, sir. They are asleep. '' The ambiguous ending leaves it uncertain whether or not they can be revived. Characters Emmeline Lestrange, a shipwrecked orphan, the heroine Dicky Lestrange, Emmeline 's cousin, the hero Paddy Button, the galley cook of the wrecked ship Arthur Lestrange, Dicky 's father and Emmeline 's uncle Hannah, Dicky and Emmeline 's son Films Four films have been based on this novel : The Blue Lagoon ( 1923 ), a silent film directed by W. Bowden and Dick Cruickshanks, starring Molly Adair and Dick Cruickshanks The Blue Lagoon ( 1949 ), directed by Frank Launder, starring Jean Simmons and Donald Houston The Blue Lagoon ( 1980 ), directed by Randal Kleiser, starring Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins Blue Lagoon : The Awakening ( 2012 ) See also State of nature References Jump up ^ Stacpoole, H. de Vere. 2014. The Blue Lagoon. Cherry Hill Publishing. Accessed September 15. Book URL. Jump up ^ `` The Blue Lagoon ''. goodreads.com. Retrieved 2014 - 09 - 23. External links The Blue Lagoon Online Full text of the original novel. The Blue Lagoon at Project Gutenberg Primordial, and Three Laws & the Golden Rule by Morgan Robertson. These 1898 stories, which first appeared in Harper 's monthly, are considered by some fans and scholars to be precursors to The Blue Lagoon. Some editions of The Blue Lagoon include Primordial in the appendix, the editors believing that Stacpoole may have been inspired by it. Fans of Edgar Rice Burroughs also acknowledge Robertson 's contribution to Stacpoole 's work as they study how both stories influenced Burroughs in the creation of Tarzan of the Apes. The Ape - Man, His Kith and Kin by Georges Doddes, published in Erbzine, is a collection of stories and references to stories about shipwrecked, feral children predating the Tarzan novels. The Blue Lagoon and Primordial / Three Laws & the Golden Rule are reprinted in their entirety. Free audio recording of The Blue Lagoon from Librivox.org. The Blue Lagoon by Henry De Vere Stacpoole Novels The Blue Lagoon ( 1908 ) The Garden of God ( 1923 ) The Gates of Morning ( 1925 ) Films The Blue Lagoon ( 1923 ) The Blue Lagoon ( 1949 ) The Blue Lagoon ( 1980 ) Pengantin Pantai Biru ( 1983 ) Return to the Blue Lagoon ( 1991 ) Blue Lagoon : The Awakening ( 2012 ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Blue_Lagoon_(novel)&oldid=832657841 '' Categories : 1908 British novels British romance novels Castaways in fiction Incest in fiction Irish novels adapted into films Novels by Henry De Vere Stacpoole Novels about survival Novels set in Oceania Novels set on islands Works about cousins Hidden categories : Articles lacking in - text citations from October 2012 All articles lacking in - text citations Articles needing additional references from September 2014 All articles needing additional references Articles with multiple maintenance issues Pages to import images to Wikidata Vague or ambiguous geographic scope from September 2015 Articles with Project Gutenberg links Talk Contents About Wikipedia Italiano Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски Edit links This page was last edited on 27 March 2018, at 08 : 16. 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Question: how did patty die in the blue lagoon
Answer: following a drinking binge