Honestly, I don't know what I'm doing. I just feel like I need to cover this subject right now. Anyway, here is the follow-up for "Just In Case".
What are you to do when your father dies?
Jim doesn't know. He honestly doesn't know.
He didn't think it would happen to him, yet he stands there at Silver's open grave. The boy can only stare at the coffer with empty eyes, as he feels like a husk of his former self. What is he to do now, when Silver is dead? Is he only to go on with his life, as if it have never happened? A lonely tear goes down Jim's cheek. He can't stop thinking that it is all so unfair. He have lost two fathers now: the first one ran away when the boy was a young child, and the second one is now dead. It is just too cruel.
After the funeral Jim feel that he can't just keep on working. He feels like he needs to make a statement, somehow, to both himself and the world, as a deep depression starts to take a hold over him. So he takes a vacation from his work and goes of to start the biggest project he have done in his whole life.
He builds a statue, made after the likeness of Silver.
Jim barely sleeps and he barely eats while he works on this, and in the end he looks like the husk that he feels like. But after about a month of hard work it is done. As Jim walks back a few steps to admire his handywork on the final day of his project he can almost feel the spirit of Silver with him, as the statue is so like the real counterpart.
After that Jim can sleep well, better than he could have in the entire month that he have been working on the statue. He eats more as well, and he looks more happy and radiant than he have done in a long time. And all because he now have a part of Silver with him, forever.
For centuries the statue of Silver stands outside of Benbow Inn, and as generation after generation of the Hawkins family runs the establishment the story of Jim and Silver still lives on.