Category: Book Robinson Crusoe

The Use of Primary Evidence Excerpt from Robinson Crusoe But now I began to exercise myself with new thoughts: I daily read the word of God, and applied all the comforts of it to my present state. One morning, being very sad, I opened the Bible upon these words, “I will never, never leave thee,…

The eponymous main character is an eighteen-year-old living in a town called Hull in England in the seventeenth century. He is the youngest of three brothers, and he wants to travel the seas instead of becoming a lawyer like his father hopes he will. Robinson’s family does not support his wishes and his father tries…