What Is The Greed In South African Americans

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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.

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