Adventure

Adventure stories involve fantastic journeys through exciting places concerning a wide variety of motivations.

+Call of the Wild, Jack London
Buck’s struggle against his masters and his development from a tame dog into a wild beast

+ The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper
The English battle the French and their Indian allies; Uncas helps his English friends resist Magua and the Hurons.

+Candide, Voltaire
Candide and Pangloss’s optimistic world view is challenged by numerous disasters; Candide’s love for Cunégonde is repeatedly thwarted.

+Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Both Marlow and Kurtz confront a conflict between their images of themselves as “civilized” Europeans and the temptation to abandon morality completely once they leave the context of European society.

+ Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Free from the rules that adult society formerly imposed on them, the boys marooned on the island struggle with the conflicting human instincts that exist within each of them—the instinct to work toward civilization and order and the instinct to descend into savagery, violence, and chaos.

+ Moby Dick, Herman Melville
A story of an obsessed captain and his crew as they chase an ellusive force of nature at all costs to a seemlyinge cursed fate. It is told through the perspective of a first time deckhand, focusing on the captain, his mates and harpooners. Incredibly detailed insight on the dated buisness of whaling.


+ Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
The story of a man's solitude and survival when he is cast away on a deserted island for years.

+ Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
Jim, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, Captain Smollett, and his crew search for a treasure that Captain Flint, an old pirate, has left buried after his death. They are challenged by Flint’s former crewmembers, who have tricked Trelawney into hiring them to help sail to Treasure Island.

+ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
At the beginning of the novel, Huck struggles against society and its attempts to civilize him, represented by the Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, and other adults. Later, this conflict gains greater focus in Huck’s dealings with Jim, as Huck must decide whether to turn Jim in, as society demands, or to protect and help his friend instead.