Robinson Crusoe Analysis
Have you ever thought of what it would be like to find yourself on a deserted island, not just playing the game of what you would take with you if you could but what it would be like with just you and what the island has to hold for you. Well throughout both passages the characters in them are affected by the setting by how their mind starts to wonder about how they are lost, and all the characters take how the setting is affecting them differently. In “From The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe” By Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe is a very pessimistic sea wash up cast away on a deserted island. But in “ From The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island’’ By Johann David Wyss. The Robinson family seem pretty optimistic seeing
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But then his mind starts to wonder.”After I solaced my mind with the comfortable part of my condition, I began to look round me, to see what kind of place I was in, and what was next to be done; and I soon found my comforts abate me“(Defo 20) But then when the robinson family found themselves stranded they seemed happy with the adventure that seemed to be fate.” The dogs, who had preceded us in landing, welcomed us in a truly friendly manner, leaping playfully around us; the geese kept up a loud cackling, to which the yellow-billed ducks quaked a powerful bass. This with the clacking of the liberated fowls, and the chattering of the boys, formed a perfect Babel; mingled with these, were the harsh cries of the penguins and flamingos, which hovered over our heads, or sat on the points of the rocks. They were in immense numbers, and their notes almost deafened us, especially as they did not accord with the harmony of our civilized fowls. However, I rejoiced to see these feathered creatures, already fancying them on my table, if we were obliged to remain in the desert region.” (Wyss 4) Which is surprising because adventure is a fun thing but when you have no idea where it you are looking around it can be …show more content…
“I fell asleep, and slept as comfortably as, I believe, few could have done in my condition, and found myself more refreshed with it than I think, I ever was on the occasion”. Though his idea was great for the night the Robins family’s idea was better than Robin’s. The family had a better setting for how they worked out sleeping arrangements. “ We sought a convenient place for our tent, under the shade of rocks. We then inserted pole into a fissure in the rock; this, resting firmly on another pole fixed to the ground, formed the frame of the tent. The sailcloth was then stretched over it, and fastened down at proper distances, by pegs, to which, for greater security, we added some boxes of provision; we fixed hooks to the canvas at the opening in the front, that we might close the entrance during the night.”(wyss6) Both ways were great even though the family’s was safer. With the environment changes that they did not expect how the made food was very resourceful. ”I constructed a sort of cooking-place, at some distance from the tent, near the river which was to supply us with fresh water. It was merely a hearth of flat stones from the bed of the stream, fenced round with some thick branches.”(wyys6) Robin didn't do anything to eat he most have not had a the
But then his mind starts to wonder.”After I solaced my mind with the comfortable part of my condition, I began to look round me, to see what kind of place I was in, and what was next to be done; and I soon found my comforts abate me“(Defo 20) But then when the robinson family found themselves stranded they seemed happy with the adventure that seemed to be fate.” The dogs, who had preceded us in landing, welcomed us in a truly friendly manner, leaping playfully around us; the geese kept up a loud cackling, to which the yellow-billed ducks quaked a powerful bass. This with the clacking of the liberated fowls, and the chattering of the boys, formed a perfect Babel; mingled with these, were the harsh cries of the penguins and flamingos, which hovered over our heads, or sat on the points of the rocks. They were in immense numbers, and their notes almost deafened us, especially as they did not accord with the harmony of our civilized fowls. However, I rejoiced to see these feathered creatures, already fancying them on my table, if we were obliged to remain in the desert region.” (Wyss 4) Which is surprising because adventure is a fun thing but when you have no idea where it you are looking around it can be …show more content…
“I fell asleep, and slept as comfortably as, I believe, few could have done in my condition, and found myself more refreshed with it than I think, I ever was on the occasion”. Though his idea was great for the night the Robins family’s idea was better than Robin’s. The family had a better setting for how they worked out sleeping arrangements. “ We sought a convenient place for our tent, under the shade of rocks. We then inserted pole into a fissure in the rock; this, resting firmly on another pole fixed to the ground, formed the frame of the tent. The sailcloth was then stretched over it, and fastened down at proper distances, by pegs, to which, for greater security, we added some boxes of provision; we fixed hooks to the canvas at the opening in the front, that we might close the entrance during the night.”(wyss6) Both ways were great even though the family’s was safer. With the environment changes that they did not expect how the made food was very resourceful. ”I constructed a sort of cooking-place, at some distance from the tent, near the river which was to supply us with fresh water. It was merely a hearth of flat stones from the bed of the stream, fenced round with some thick branches.”(wyys6) Robin didn't do anything to eat he most have not had a the