Exploring Beach of Falesa Realism in Stevenson’s Novella

Exploring Beach of Falesa Realism in Stevenson’s Novella

Robert Louis Stevenson, the Scottish writer who used to write about the adventure romance, he shifted his literary career when he immigrated to Samoa in the South Pacific. However, Stevenson experienced the pacific life what made him depicts the realistic life in the island in his work “The Beach of Falesa”, saying to his friend in a letter “It’s the first realistic South Sea story: I mean with real South Sea character and detail of life.” (Towheed, 2012)He has a collection of stories “South Sea tales” which he reflects his experience of living abroad in the South Seas. One of these south sea tales…