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Story · A household shelf · 1883

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Treasure Island

56Watch it awake.

Courage is real. The treasure is not a good inheritance, and the rum is not a joke.

The review

Jim Hawkins is brave. That part is clean. He is also a boy on a ship where the most likable man is a murderer, and the prize at the end is coins that nobody earned. The story knows Silver is dangerous. It still has too much fun with him.

Read it for the courage and for the warning. A charming man who will change sides for a chest is not a model. Do not hand a child the rum, the killing, and the treasure as if they were one adventure.

Journal

Keep Treasure Island in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 56. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Temperance are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

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Pride and Prejudice

70 instead of 56

Pride and Prejudice is still a story film, and it scores 70 instead of 56. What you gain is household: Marriage is the whole question, and Wickham's charm is not allowed to be free.

The eight

7
Industry
A voyage takes seamanship. The map is not magic. Someone still has to sail.
5
Household
Jim's father is weak and then gone. His mother is briefly brave. There is no house at the end.
4
Piety
Men fear dying. Almost nobody reveres anything.
8
Courage
Jim does the dangerous thing when the adults are past doing it.
6
Republic
A ship has a law. Mutiny is the attempt to replace it with whoever is strongest.
4
Temperance
Rum runs the crew. The book often enjoys the swagger.
6
Truth
Long John Silver lies, and the book likes him for it. Jim at least admits when he was afraid.
5
Stewardship
The chest is dug up and spent. Nothing is planted for the next people.

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Story · A household shelf · 1884

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

61Watch it awake.

The conscience is real and badly taught. The last chapters waste the point. Read it awake.

The review

Huck Finn has been told that a black man is property and that helping him run is a sin. On the river he decides he would rather be damned than send Jim back. The book wants you to see that the boy's training was the lie, and the choice was the truth.

It is not a gentle book, and the last part is a failure of nerve. Tom Sawyer turns Jim's freedom into a game. Do not read that part as wisdom. Read the river. Then say, in plain words, what your house was taught to call normal that a child might have to refuse.

Journal

Keep Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 61. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household is the thin one.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

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The Secret Garden

73 instead of 61

The Secret Garden is still a story film, and it scores 73 instead of 61. What you gain is household: A shut-up house opens.