Daniel Blackworth

"Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for what we have." - Robinson Crusoe from the novel Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe was one of the first classics that I have read as a kid, and I found it to be a rather reflective novel due to the circumstances experienced by the main character and how he learns from his experiences. Robinson Crusoe was a man who wanted to escape his parent's wishes; he tried to escape by going out to sea, but he only experienced continuous failure with the ships he rode in. He eventually becomes shipwrecked on an island, alone, except for some animals who were with him. He tries to survive in the island, with the resources available to him. He realizes that he shouldn't have ran away from his parents without saying a word; he finds himself in the island. Later on, he encounters some cannibals, yet he doesn't strike at them because he knows that they do not know that what they were doing. He instead frees their prisoners, and he attains companionship with one whom he names 'Friday'. He is later able to leave the island when he gains control of a ship which had a divided crew. He leaves the mutineers in the island, but gives them insights on how he survived there. He later on goes on some journeys with Friday. Overall, I liked how it showed how a man survived in an island with no one to help him, and I liked how the story flowed with the introduction of Friday and the mutineers.
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