Friday and Robinson

Friday and Robinson

Being isolated from humankind can really bring the worst in people, just like Robinson in the book Friday and Robinson. Imagine how would a person change if they were isolated from the world. Would you forget your language? Would you become a savage human with no rational reasoning? Or would you try to preserve your ideas and BELIEFs? Robinson had these options, but he WAS a man who stood with his BELIEFs.

In the beginning of the novel, Robinson realizes he IS on a island with nobody around. Then he sees an animal; he looks at it and kills it. He did this out of the fear that the animal would kill him. ISOLATION caused Robinson recoil in fear at the first thing he saw because he WAS scared that no one would help him. Later Robinson takes a mud bath, this IS a significant part in the novel because he IS showing Robinson trying to get rid of his BELIEFs, but he fights the urge and continues to act civilized.

Robinson experiences many hallucinations through the novel telling us he clearly misses his home/the world. The first hallucination struck him, he thought he saw his sister on a boat. This shows how much he missed his sister. The second hallucination occured he thought his dog WAS smiling at him. We know that the dog wasn’t smiling at him because it IS impossible. Another rational reason why he thought the dog WAS smiling WAS because he misses SOCIETY that he IS trying to make this island/creatures into his SOCIETY. We can also see this through him trying to civilize Friday because he IS changing Friday into a person in his SOCIETY.

Even though Robinson has been isolated from SOCIETY, he has changed by accepting different BELIEFs in the end of the novel. At first Robinson tried to change Friday into a civilized man, but after he saw Friday's ideas and BELIEFs that were working better than his BELIEFs he realized that not all societies ideas are true. An example of this IS when