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Robinson Crusoe: The man and his island

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Robinson Kruso's Karen

Robinson Kruso is a deeply pragmatic individual, but it also says something more profound about the book. Sometimes the book has been interpreted as about survival in a solitary situation. What would it be like to be in a state of nature without any of the trappings of civilization? But Robinson Kruso brings those trappings onto the island, and in a way the story is saying that you can't turn back the clock.

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