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Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe Robison Crusoe, the man who spent decades on a lonely island is world famous. Even who has not read the novel of Daniel Defoe knows him and his adventure. We experienced Robinson how he shipwrecked on an island. We were with him when he built a habitation, despite the weather, bred goats and grew grain. We saw his despair, his optimism, his skill and ingenuity. With him we discovered the whole island, always in the hope of rescue, but at the same time in the panic from the wild cannibals. Crusoe introduced himself as poor and miserable, where he pities himself. We could not see the time from about first twelve days, because his first adventure appeared on the thirtieth of September. He was on the island before that date. Crusoe used the adventures to know which day and date it is, to count the time he spent on the island and that gave him an aura of completeness, even if it requires strange bookkeeping. He had many religious moments but he would forget it fast. He found God without managing of anyone and finally became a tolerant ruler of the island with respect to religion, with only the Bible that helped him. For example when he calls the sprouting corn a miracle and later he turned it into just good luck. But during his illness his turn to religion was lasting. The hallucination of a wrathful angel who had threaten him for not repenting his sins is the major event in his emotional life. When he later took rum and read some verses from the Bible which told him to call upon God in times of trouble, he was deeply affected. His lost of one day during his illness could represent his renouncement of total control of his life and his confession of a higher power in charge. When he recovered, he fell on his knees to thank God for saving him from his illness and his faith seemed sincere. His faith gave him the strength to research the island by himself which may not be a place of captivity, but a place of salvation from his earlier

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