Kidnapped

by

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Silver Button

The silver button symbolizes chosen loyalty and earned trust. It is a decorative badge engraved with a Jacobite emblem, once worn by Alan Breck Stewart and later given to David as a sign of their…

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Alan’s French Clothes

Alan’s French clothes symbolize defiance and the burden of political allegiance. They are elegant, impractical, and dangerously conspicuous, marking him as a Jacobite and a target in British-controlled Scotland. Yet Alan refuses to part…

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