The novel Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson starts with the main character David Balfour going on an adventure to find himself. David is a seventeen year old boy from Essendean, Scotland and both of his parents are dead and he no longer has a reason to stay in Essendean. Before leaving he meets with Mr.Campbell, the minister of the town and a friend of David's father, who wants David to take a letter to the House of Straws in Cramond. Before taking this letter to Ebenezer Balfour, his uncle, Mr.Campbell gives David his fathers left over money, a shilling, bible, and a healing ointment recipe. David heads to Cramond asking around to see where he can find the house of straws he's looking for but people aren't giving him much help. He comes to someone who gives him some information but tells him that his uncle wasn't very popular in the town which makes David upset. He figures his uncle is a mean guy and almost decides to go home but he continues anyway.
What was David's expectations of his uncle and why was he so disappointed in what he found out?
David gets to the house and is answered to his uncle with a gun in his hand. He expects the person who answered the door to be a servant but it was actually his uncle. Davids hope was to have a wealthy family members that would help him and David begins to get angry. The uncle decides to go out but tells David that he'll have to lock him out when he leaves but David said that he'll leave if he does so and that causes the Uncle not to leave. David finds a book that his father signed dedicated to his Uncle and asks if him and his father were brothers and to avoid answering starts to become upset about his brothers death and this only confuses David more.
I'm very suspicious about Davids uncle. He seems like he has something to hide and he isn't giving David much information and hopefully he opens up to David later in the book.
After reading the first few chapters i caught an instant connection with this book between David and Peter Parker from spiderman. Both teens who lost their parents at a young age and had to live with family members. In Davids case it is his uncle Ebenzer and in Peters case it was his uncle Ben.
