Jim Hawkins

Jim Hawkins is the main protagonist and narrator of the novel "Silver: Return to Treasure Island" by Andrew Motion. He is seventeen years old, relatively well-educated, and works at hi father's inn, the Hispaniola. Jim relishes the adventures of his father, though he has grown weary of hearing those adventures repeated. Jim is an upstanding young man, though he wants something more out of life than a drunken father and work at an inn. When he meets Natty, he has his chance for adventure. Besides Natty being beautiful -something which Jim notices immediately- she is the daughter of Long John Silver, whom has hired a crew and ship for a return to the island to retrieve the silver horde left behind.

Jim undertakes the journey also because he owns the map. He gives it to Captain Beamish for safe keeping. When the ship arrives at Treasure Island...