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His father maps out the safest life a man can live. Crusoe boards a ship without telling him.
Robinson Crusoe
A runaway son becomes castaway, penitent, maker, master, and island ruler.
York
A comfortable home Crusoe has to abandon before his real troubles can begin.
His hunger for the sea defies family, duty, and hints of coming ruin.
Read →Rambling Thoughts of the Sea
Being the third son of the family and not bred to any trade, my head began to be filled very early with rambling thoughts. My father, who was very ancient, had given me a competent share of learning, as far as house-education and a country free school generally go, and designed me for the law; but I would be satisfied with nothing but going to sea; and my inclination to this led me so strongly against the will, nay, the commands of my father, and against all the entreaties and persuasions of my mother and other friends, that there seemed to be something fatal in that propensity of nature, tending directly to the life of misery which was to befall me.
Crusoe is telling this story from the far side of everything that went wrong, and it shows in how he explains himself. He does not say he chose the sea; he says his inclination led him so strongly that there was "something fatal in that propensity of nature." Before we have heard a single adventure, he has already reached a verdict: his own restlessness was a kind of doom built into him, and the misery ahead was set from the start. It lets him confess disobedience to his father while handing the real blame to fate.
Against the Middle Station
His father maps out the safest life a man can live. Crusoe boards a ship without telling him.
Bible
A book left in the wreck becomes the cure for a shipwrecked man's terror.
Friday
A rescued captive becomes Crusoe’s companion, servant, student, fighter, and unsettling questioner.
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