Daniel Defoe's realistic fiction, Robinson Crusoe was riveting reading. I could totally identify with old Robinson. The youngest in his family, he didn't like the plan his parents had in mind for him. His father encouraged him to aim for lower middle class as that is where the happiest people were located. Robinson had an itch for travel and travel he did. When he landed on an island to live alone for 25 years, it wasn't his first shipwreck. He had been shipwrecked once before. In his isolation he did question his choices and he wondered if his parents were correct. If anything Robinson was a survivor. He adapted. When he saw he was using too much of his precious ammunition harvesting some of the feral goats on the island, he adapted. He captured a male and female kid, built a fence, and tamed them. From these two he built a flock that provided him with meat, milk and clothing. Robinson was observant and he solved his problems one by one. He wasn't always successful. He spent a year constructing one canoe that was too big and heavy to budge. The next canoe he built was smaller and closer to the water. I was fascinated to read about his thought process. Although this is an old book (published in 1719) it is a classic!
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