I FOUND WHAT IS THE FAITH IN THE HEART OF THE SPIRITS Robinson Crusoe published by Daniel Defoe in 1719 is an adventure story. The events are narrated by the protagonist ‘Robinson Crusoe’. However, viewing the work just as an adventure story can be wrong, if we take into account the messages given in it. The story actually tells us many things from slavery, capitalism to the principles of Protestanism. For me, the most important lesson which can be taken from the book is related to human nature. It explains how human being can notice the things his soul actually needs rather than the society and the earthly things when he is let alone. Should the need arise to sum up the story to understand it better, we can say that it starts …show more content…
It tells him these sufferings are not enough to make him repent and his early sins spring to his mind. He starts to read Bible and comes across a verse about ‘ calling on the Lord in times of trouble’. All these things led him to think about his sins and to seriously pray God. He starts to notice the God’s mercy and prostrates himself in gratitude. At that time he is sincere ad recovers from the illness. Furthermore, the island should not be viewed just as an isolation, it is also a favour of the God to make him find the essence and deliverance from his guilts. The island now let him to question his life. He starts to regret his earlier life. It can be deduced he tries to console himself by reading the Bible as he feel comfortable when he read the verse “ Be strong and courageous...for the Lord or your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.” (Deuteonomy, 31:6 ) This consolation helps him to become more faithful and he starts to look at the isolation from a different perspective. He no longer conceive it as a captivity but as a place of deliverance from his sins. Hence, he looks at the world more optimistically. He even uses the word ‘home’ for his camp when he discovers nice places as he says: “ how strange a checker-worker of Providence is the life of man… Today we love what tomorrow we hate...” ( Defoe, D. 1719, p.
While reading the book many epiphanies become visible such as people will turn away from even their family, the disbelief which slowly turned to fear, and most predominant, the strong urge for humans to fight for survival. As you read through the book
In the story family is a very important thing as is home. When he was on his journey he was missing his family at some points he also wanted it to be over so he could be home and with his family. In book five lines 219-224 he says “what I want and all my days I pine for is to go back to my house and see my day of homecoming. And if some god batters me far out on the wine-blue water, I will endure it, keeping a stubborn spirit inside me, for already I have suffered much and done much hard work on the waves and in the fighting. So, let this adventure follow."
After his father had died, he said he had felt relief. The type of relief that came with no sadness, no worry about another being. When he said this it seems as if he felt relief from the responsibility of his
He witnesses the pain and death in his town and feels unable to do anything about it. His spiritual crisis is typical of those who experience such catastrophic situations as they try to reconcile their trust in a loving God with the existence of such great
He accepts being excluded from the society , being banished, and everything else from his ‘ brothers.’ He would rather do all of this than give up who he could become and who he is. He wished for people to understand that they
In other words he bends to pressure even though he isn’t ready to be saved. This leads to another theme in the story – sadness. He is heartbreakingly sad for not seeing Jesus and for lying to his aunt. “But I was really crying because I couldn 't bear to tell her that I had lied, that I had deceived everybody in the church that I hadn 't seen Jesus, and that now I didn 't believe there was a Jesus anymore, since he didn 't come to help me.
This shows that he feels as though he has been betrayed by his God, the opposite of how he felt at the beginning of the
In summation, there are two themes that prevail in the book. The two themes are never give up and when the individual is scared to do something they can overcome their fear. The importance of never giving up is so people can achieve more and be satisfied. The importance of having courage is so
When he had time to think and see the stuff from the unspeakable times he started to feel bad for the others. At the end he felt bad for everyone else because they were trapped. Trapped by the word “we” , while he knew the word “I” . He now is an individual while the others are forever going to be stuck being in a group with his brothers not knowing of himself and they will never feel the feeling of being set free. This is why the saying “ To be free, a man must be free of his brothers.” represents the
This quote demonstrates the hardships that he overcame and how he struggled to have hope. After the experiences he underwent in the camps his hope was at an all time low. Suffering drains hope and courage from a character making them vulnerable to
The lesson to take from these characters and their lives is to not fall into the trap of letting your life be run by something that you can control, be it fear or another emotion, and that you are in control of your own fate, so make it
It taught me that strength and perseverance can make a significant impact in life. I also learned that forgiveness and the ability to forgive is much more powerful than I ever realized. This novel sucked me into the story and its characters and took me on an emotional ride of highs and lows. Finally, it forced me to reevaluate my previous judgement of the homeless.
be, it also teaches you the consequences of the acts you make that affect in many things in your life. I also saw that different social class type of people cannot be too friends with each other because they didn`t like each other because they were different from each other. I liked the point of view of the story because it was a first person point of view and the narrator was a boy living in gang that was in a war, it really was interesting that the narrator was only twelve years old and he wanted to fight in rumbles and do things people in gangs do, he was very
He realizes he is in exile and there really is nothing he nor anyone else can do about it. By accepting his life, (luck and fate in all) of being in exile, it makes for a much calmer journey(for the time that these emotions