Robert Louis Steveson's agressive writing style
was extremly effective in this story. The bond between David and Alan shows how creative and stylish Robert is.
Though the bond is unquestionably different, it still leads to the same outcome, "The hereditary hero has much to learn from
the adventure, and may even acquire a strange longing for him, but at last the adventure must recede into ineffectual exile."
I believe that the bond between these two is the most important
theme in this story. Not only does it question their own morals and values, but it most importantly saves there lives
on many occasions. It is also extremly important how Robert kind of inforces the fact that Alan can not truly function
without David and how David can not with Alan. It is a bit of a ying yang relationship with Alan's unsiphistocated behavior
and David's erratic moods. To put it in current events, it sort of resembles the relationship between Gollum, Sam, and
Frodo...Frodo being David (the heavy burden to reclaim his inheritance of the estate) and Alan being a mixture of Gollum (The
Guide) and Sam (David's Right Hand Man).
However, this story has to end on a sad note. Though the
bond seems indestructable at times it is Alan he plays the trick man at Ebenezer's door (Just after David had saved his life
on the convenant). After they had consulted and argued for quite some time, the story reaches its depressing ending,
almost bringing a sense of the impossible (Stevensons ideological differnce between most writers) and though David and Alan
seemed to fit as brothers, Alan not having blood relation does not get any inheritence in the estate, and must remain a fugitive.
