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Robert Louis Stevenson Research Paper

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Robert Louis Stevenson was born on November 13th, 1850 in Edinburgh, Scotland his given name Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson (Harris and Fitzgerald 385) (Davidson 3).His father Thomas Stevenson and his mother Margaret strictly upheld Presbyterian, a form of Christianity, and mid-victorian standards (He contracted a lung condition as a child which caused him to get sick very often and miss a lot of school (Harris and Fitzgerald 385). him .When Stevenson was a child he would write stories that were based on the bible or Scottish history (Davidson 3). As Stevenson got older his love for writing caused some tension. His relationship with his parents, mainly his father, became very strained because of his dad pushing him to join the family business of lighthouse building instead of pursuing his passion for literature (Harris and Fitzgerald 385). To get his father off his back Stevenson went to law school even though he had no real interest in law. He passed the bar exam in 1885 but he was never a …show more content…

While Stevenson was alive he wrote many works most of which fall under the Boy Adventure genre. Stevenson made many attempts to expand his writing genre, but theses attempts reseved varying results (Harris and Fitzgerald 385). For instance, Stevenson wrote a novel with Ernest Hemingway which was a dud because of Stevenson's ignorance to " Dramatic technique," but the travel essays Stevenson wrote were raved about by critics for "humor, perception, grace, and charm" (Harris and Fitzgerald 385). Many critics enjoyed Stevenson "fine, transparent, marvelously lucid style" as Margaret Oliphant puts it, but some felt that Stevenson paid more attention to style then actual content (Harris and Fitzgerald 385). An example of this is his story The Wrecker, the story was very good but the structure of the story lacked stability and was seemingly mashed together (Raleigh

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