Robert Stevenson Research Paper

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Robert Louis Stevenson, a successful author in American history, who wrote novels anywhere from sailing out at sea to believing there is two personalities in one person. He has made an impact in every big readers lives and will continue to those who just discovered his works.
On November 13, 1850, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Robert Louis Stevenson came into this world. His parents, Thomas Stevenson and Margaret Isabella Balfour Stevenson, had a family business of a lighthouse engineering company, but Robert had no interest in wanting to help out. He had enrolled in Edinburgh University to study engineering to make his parents proud, but he started studying law instead. Once he graduated from law school, he didn’t practice it at all. Instead he began to write He loved to write. (The Biography.com (2015) His parents actually kind of hate him for not following through with his major in college and getting married at such a young age. (Shmoop Editorial Team. (2008, November 11).
Marrying his wife, Fanny Osbourne, influenced his life greatly. She had two kids and he took them in as if his own. He’s so young and so in love that he didn’t …show more content…

He explains the book a little bit and how it’s not only an adventure story, but it’s very dramatic and grows when you read it. He believes that the book focuses on truthfulness and relationships between the characters in the certain story. The book has received lots of praise as a very good model of adventure stories with realistic themes about humans. The critic believes that each reader receives a variety of messages on understanding the knowledge, experience and maturity portrayed in the book. As if you appeared in the book yourself. The characters and the message it gives out have made a huge impact on people’s perception about treasures and pirates and keep people calling this book a “classic”. (Classic Critique, (2010, March