I don't understand the ending


After Jim let Silver go with the treasure, The captain comes and says: "Your father will be proud of you". Why?

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He says "would" as in, "would have been proud if he was alive" because Jim's father is dead and was a sailor or something. So Smollett was saying that Jim lived up to his father's standards and principles.

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Good question. It felt like it was something appropriate to say instead of something sensible to say.

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