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The Theme of Kidnapped
Title: The Theme of Kidnapped
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 858 | Pages: 3.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Theme of Kidnapped
MONEY HUNGRY
Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson, has delighted readers for generations with
its exhilarating adventure, rich action, and complex characterization. Kidnapped is the
story of young David Balfour, an orphan, whose uncle Ebenezer cheats him out of his
inheritance and makes plans to have him kidnapped and sold into slavery. David’s Uncle
Ebenezer is a very money hungry man as are many of the other people David encounters
on his journey. Many of …showed first 75 words of 858 total…
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Throughout Kidnapped, Stevenson exemplifies what it is to be “money hungry”
through some of his characters. He shows the extremes people will go to in order to
satisfy their greed for money. It is human nature to be greedy and to desire wealth, but it is
abnormal and unhealthy to be greedy enough to commit murder, to kidnap, and to slyly
cheat people out of their rightfully owned and hard earned
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