# Treasure Island — Character guide

> Key figures in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.

- [Jim Hawkins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/treasure_island_se/characters/jim_hawkins.md): The innkeeper's son who finds Flint's map and narrates the voyage, learning fast that treasure and trust are rarely the same thing.
- [Long John Silver](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/treasure_island_se/characters/long_john_silver.md): The one-legged ship's cook whose charm, competence, and shifting loyalties make him the most dangerous man aboard the Hispaniola.
- [Doctor Livesey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/treasure_island_se/characters/doctor_livesey.md): The clear-eyed physician who trades his wig for a cutlass, the one man aboard whose judgment the squire actually trusts.
- [Captain Smollett](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/treasure_island_se/characters/captain_smollett.md): The blunt, dutiful captain who smells mutiny before the anchor lifts and refuses to sail without precautions nobody wants to hear.
- [Squire Trelawney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/treasure_island_se/characters/squire_trelawney.md): The wealthy, excitable squire whose open purse and looser tongue bankroll the voyage and broadcast its secret to every tavern on the coast.
- [Ben Gunn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/treasure_island_se/characters/ben_gunn.md): A marooned ex-pirate, half-starved and half-cunning, who trades his secrets only for a gentleman's word of honor.
- [Israel Hands](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/treasure_island_se/characters/israel_hands.md): Israel Hands serves as coxswain aboard the Hispaniola, one of the pirates Silver keeps on a short leash while the treasure is still being hunted. He chafes openly at Silver's caution, demanding pickles, wine, and action 
- [Billy Bones](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/treasure_island_se/characters/billy_bones.md): Billy Bones arrives at the Admiral Benbow inn as a paying lodger with a sea-chest, a saber cut, and a habit of watching the cove for ships. He drinks slowly, sings the dead man's chest song, and rules the taproom with a 
- [Pew](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/treasure_island_se/characters/pew.md): Old Pew moves through the early chapters as a figure of eerie authority, finding his way by sound and delivering messages that terrify hardened sailors. His blindness makes him seem helpless, yet he commands fear and obe
- [Black Dog](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/treasure_island_se/characters/black_dog.md): A menacing pirate who visits Billy Bones at the inn.
- [Tom Redruth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/treasure_island_se/characters/tom_redruth.md): The loyal gamekeeper who accompanies the squire to the island.
- [George Merry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/treasure_island_se/characters/george_merry.md): A fierce mutineer who challenges Silver's authority.
- [Dick Johnson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/treasure_island_se/characters/dick_johnson.md): A young mutineer who becomes the keeper of the black spot.
- [Tom Morgan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/treasure_island_se/characters/tom_morgan.md): An old pirate among the mutineers on the island.
- [Abraham Gray](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/treasure_island_se/characters/abraham_gray.md): A loyal sailor who defects from the mutineers to join the captain.
- [Mr. Arrow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/treasure_island_se/characters/mr_arrow.md): The first mate of the Hispaniola who disappears at sea.
- [Mr. Dance](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/treasure_island_se/characters/mr_dance.md): The chief officer of the revenue service who helps Jim.
- [Job Anderson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/treasure_island_se/characters/job_anderson.md): The boatswain of the Hispaniola who joins the mutiny.
- [O'Brien](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/treasure_island_se/characters/obrien.md): A mutineer who is killed during the attack on the stockade.
- [Captain Flint](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/treasure_island_se/characters/old_flint.md): The infamous dead pirate who buried the treasure on the island.

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