A Motif is a reoccuring structure that helps to develop the major themes in a literary work. For many motifs, they tend to be continuous such as the ones featured in Treasure Island. Motifs that are most present are in the events where Jim Hawkins first enters the Hispaniola and he is not considered the same as all the people on the boat making him seem as an outcast, he is left on his own and not considered a seamen at all. In cases throughout this book they continue to differ because in this there are instances of solitude that act as motifs to the main characters, for Jim being alone it is him thinking and talking more about what is going on for him when he is alone and thinking about his next moves and what he has gotten himself into. Another motif that is very apparent in this novel deals with the color black marking as a symbol bad things. The black spot being one where it is a dreaded ending of one character as well symbolizing what you last see when you die or when they go searching for treasure it becomes dark in a hole and you have to trust your instincts.
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