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Robinson Crusoe: The man and his island

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Robinson Crusoe's Friday

There is no suggestion of romance or anything like that between the two men but there is a blissful period of happiness. Crusoe's long period of solitude has come to an end and he finds genuine companionship in this young man. Olivet we see Friday only through the eyes of Crusoe because this is a first person narrative so how does he describe Friday to us what does this reveal? We can read it in several very different ways it could be read as the relationship between as was said the master and the servant. The initial description reads like a master and a pet. For me it's incredible because it's a relationship that is really is one-sided in the sense that it's

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