Robinson

             Daniel Defoe is one of the great and well-known writers of English Literature who lived between 1660 and 1731 when the historical changes and cultural developments took place in that period. "Robinson Crusoe" which is first published in 1719, is one of his most important and significant novels that is known by most people all around the world. It is an interesting and impressive story that tells the wild life of a man on a deserted island. This man is Robinson, the main character of the story, he is passionately fancying to travel through seas as a sailor and to see different places and also to meet and know new people all around the world. When the story begins, he is only 18 years old and he always tells this inevitable ambition to his parents but they, especially his father does not let him to be a simple sailor in order not to risk his life in a possible shipwreck. At first, Robinson seems to accept this decision but his desire for sea grows day by day and one day, without!
             informing his parents, he sets on a voyage with a captain and this voyage is the beginning of a new life for him. Firstly, there is a sudden shipwreck and he survives but in his second voyage, although he survives on the one hand he becomes a sale survivor of a shipwreck on a deserted island. By working alone, he manages to go on his unusual, wild and simple life and the years pass in his compulsory solitary and inevitable loneliness. One day, he saves the life of a slave on this island and they become closer day by day. Robinson gives the name of "Friday" to this man and this slave who succeeds to be a good friend to Robinson becomes the meaning of life for him. In this essay, I will try to inform you about the big intimacy between Robinson and Friday by making connections with the events, occasions and important themes of the unusual story of "Robinson Crusoe".
             Firstly, I want to begin by dealing with the theme of "fa...

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