Reflection of Robinson Crusoe DOCX

Title	Reflection of Robinson Crusoe
Author	Thúy Trần
Pages	2
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Reflection of Robinson Crusoe I am quite enjoying Robinson Crusoe. At first I wondered whether it was going to be any good. Something dramatic would happen to Crusoe, then something else, then something else. I wondered whether its reputation was mainly the result of being first English novel. Robinson Crusoe's island survival and his encounter of the savage he named Friday He left the island at the halfway point of the story and Friday met his demise soon after .My unexpected encounter was with the providence of God. Page upon page Defoe overtly wove in his theme of providential care of the Creator. It is a story of a man transformed from disbelief to belief as he discovers and contemplates God's providence. It got better after he was shipwrecked. I never realized before that Robinson Crusoe was on a journey to Africa to acquire slaves for his and his friends' Brazilian plantations when he became shipwrecked. He does not seem to think there is much wrong about it either. At one point he thinks to himself: I had great reason to consider it a determination from Heaven, that in this desolate place, and in this desolate manner I should end my life; the tears would run plentifully down my face when I made these reflections, and sometimes I would expostulate with myself, Why Providence should thus completely ruin its creatures, and render them so absolutely miserable, so without help abandoner, so entirely depressed that it could hardly be rational to be thankful for such a life. It is even odder since he had been a slave himself. A captain had allowed him to sail with them free of charge (although he was not required to do any work). Unfortunately Moorish pirates attacked their ship and they could not be prevented from boarding. The pirate leader must have liked the look of young Robinson's jib, because he kept him as his own slave, while all the other sailors were sent up country. Crusoe appears to have been given relatively light duties, such as catching fish. Crusoe manages to escape by stealing his master's boat with another boy called Xury, whom he was obliged to sell to a Portuguese slaver for sixty Pieces of Eight when they were picked up off the coast of the Verde Islands. To be fair to Crusoe, he felt a bit bad about it, but the Portuguese captain had been so generous to him, it was difficult to refuse. Later when Crusoe goes on his slave acquiring mission, he brings "such toys as were fit for our trade with the Negroes, such as beads, bits of glass, shells,...