Jim Hawkins (Treasure Island)

Jim Hawkins is a young cabin boy from the Benbow Inn. He is the main protagonist of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel Treasure Island. In the book, he narrates his adventures.
==Biography==
===At the Benbow Inn===
Jim works at his family's inn. A patron of the inn, former swashbuckler Billy Bones, receives the Black Spot, a pirates' summons, with the warning that he has until ten o'clock, and he drops dead of apoplexy on the spot. In the dead man's sea chest, Jim and his mother find an oilskin packet, which contains a logbook detailing the treasure looted during the career of Captain Flint, a notorious pirate, and a detailed map of an island, with the location of Flint's treasure caches marked on it. Jim and his mother escape with a packet from The Captain's sea chest, which is found to contain a map of the island without that Pew and his men see them. Squire Trelawney immediately plans to outfit a sailing vessel to hunt the treasure down, with the help of Dr. Livesey and Jim.
===At the Hispaniola===
When Jim goes to Bristol and visits Long John Silver at the Spy Glass tavern, his suspicions are immediately aroused: Silver is missing a leg, like the man Bones warned him about. But Silver manages to win Jim's trust. Despite Captain Smollett's misgivings about the mission and Silver's hand-picked crew, the Hispaniola sets sail for the Caribbean Sea. Long John Silver (along with Polly the parrot) used to tell Jim stories when the ship is set sail.
As they near their destination, Jim crawls into the ship's apple barrel to get some apples. While inside, he overhears Silver talking secretly with some of the other crewmen. He learns that Silver was Captain Flint's quartermaster and that several of the other crew were also once Flint's men, and he is recruiting more men from the crew to his own side. After Flint's treasure is recovered, Silver intends to murder the Hispaniola's officers and keep the loot for himself and his men. Once the pirates return to their berths, Jim warns Smollett, Trelawney, and Livesey of the impending mutiny.
===On the island===
Arriving at the island and going ashore, Jim lands with Silver's men but runs away from them almost as soon as he is ashore. Hiding in the woods, Jim sees Silver murder Tom, a crewman loyal to Smollett. Jim meets a castaway convict named Benjamin Gunn, antoher ex-crewman Flint's. Ben tells him that he lived on the Caribbean Sea for three years, taunting him that the treasure isn't found in the island. 
Later, Jim joins Trelawney, Livesey, and their men at an abandoned, fortified stockade on the island. Silver and his pirates assault the stockade but are repulsed in a furious battle.
Under cover of darkness, Jim sneaks out of the stockade, takes Ben Gunn's coracle, and approaches the Hispaniola. He cuts the ship's anchor cable, setting her adrift and out of reach of the pirates on shore. After daybreak, he manages to approach the schooner again and board her. Of the two pirates left aboard, only one is still alive: the coxswain, Israel Hands, who agrees to help Jim helm the ship to a safe beach in exchange for medical treatment and brandy. Once the ship approaches the beach, however, Hands attempts to murder Jim, who shoots him in self defense.
Jim goes ashore and returns to the stockade, where he is horrified to find only Silver and the pirates. Silver tells Jim that when everyone found the ship was gone, Captain Smollett's party had agreed to a truce whereby the pirates take the map and allow the besieged party to leave. After a dispute over leadership, Silver and the others set out with the map, taking Jim along as a hostage.
They eventually find a treasure cache, but it is empty. The angry pirates prepare to kill Silver and Jim,but Jim's crew was able to defeat the pirates. After getting the treasure, Jim and his crew sail happily to the Benbow Inn.
==Adaptations==
===Melotoons===
Jim Hawkins is the narrator of the animated short. The difference is that Billy Bones is never mentioned.
===Takarajima===
In this anime adaptation of the classic story, Jim's character and story is mostly faithful to the original book. He is an excitable and adventureous young boy who embarks on a journey to find a treasure after the arrival of the pirates at Benbow Inn, with Dr. Livesey and Squire Trelawney as his companions. His relationship with John Silver is further explored, with Jim being initially distrustful of him but later growing to like him and view him as a mentor figure, which makes his betrayal more shocking. Some of his character traits were exaggerated to match the classic anime style and atmosphere of the series but he nonetheless remains a seriously good hero.
===The Legends of Treasure Island===
===Muppet Treasure Island===
Jim Hawkins is an orphaned boy in Jim Henson's adoption of the book. Gonzo, Rizzo, and the other Muppets are Jim's helpers. The difference is that Jim's crew is ambushed by a tribe of wild boars (along with John Silver's pirates) on the island.
===Treasure Planet===
Jim Hawkins is the title character of Treasure Planet. Here, we know he is failing school and is able to use his hovering skateboard. His character is the same, but he is accompanied characters not appearing in the book: Amelia, BEN, Scroop, and Dr. Doppler.
==Portrayers==
*Bobby Driscoll (who also played Peter Pan in Peter Pan (1953)) in Treasure island (1950)
*Kit Taylor in Long John Silver (1954)
*Kim Burfield in Treasure Island (1972)
*David Jones in the animated movie Treasure Island (1972)
*Kevin Bishop in Muppet Treasure Island (1996)
*Kevin Zegers in Treasure Island (1999)
*Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Treasure Planet (2002)
==Gallery==
Jim about to shoot Hands.jpg|Jim about to shoot Hands
Jim as hostage.jpg|Jim taken in hostage by Silver
==External Links== 
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