delivering command which operates in the story entitled Five On A Treasure Island. This research is aimed to find out the ways of the politeness strategies uttered in delivering command, to show the context of situation when those strategies are employed, and to examine the factors which influence the characters to choose the strategies. This research belongs to descriptive qualitative method which uses criterion-based sampling or purposive sampling. The data of this research are taken from the conversation in the story. It can be words or sentences which belong to command speech act. Based on the data analysis, it can be concluded as follows: First, there are four types of politeness strategies which are employed by the characters in the story to deliver command. They are Bald-on Record Strategy (55.56 %), Positive Politeness Strategy (34.72 %), Negative Politeness Strategy (6.94 %), and Off-Record Strategy (2.78 %). Second, the context of situations found in the story when the politeness strategies are employed belong to informal situation. It is because the data source of this research is a children’s story. Third, there are three main factors which influence the characters in the story to choose politeness strategy to deliver command. The factors are power, distance, and size of imposition. Bald-on record is mostly used when the speaker has a power upon the hearer and there is a close relationship between the speaker and the hearer. Positive Politeness is mostly used when there is a close relationship between the speaker and the hearer. Negative politeness is mostly used when there is a distance between the speaker and the hearer so that the speaker tries to minimize the size of imposition. However, Off-record is used when there is a distance between the speaker and the hearer.