Short Assignment 1 – Text: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
“It is not easy for me to express how it mov’d me to see what extasy and filial affection had work’d in this poor savage, at the sight of his father, and of his being deliver’d from death; nor indeed can I describe the extravagancies of his affection after this; for he went into the boat and out of the boat a great many times: When he went in to him, he would sit down by him, open his breast, and hold his father’s head close to his bosom half an hour together…” - (Defoe 187)

The above quote refers to a scene where Robinson Crusoe witnesses Friday’s affectionate reunion with his father. This quote obviously shows the scene’s parallel connection with Crusoe’s conflicted relationship