How does Robinson Crusoe recall and represent his younger self to an imagined reader?'

The story of Robinson Crusoe although a fictional tale is rooted through the experiences of Alexander Selkirk and various other contributors and is firmly combined with some of his own experiences. It would have been related to by the people of the time as the story deals with their current issues and in this confusing era the struggle for security in an apparently irrational world may well have been paramount in a major part of …

…from his younger days to alleviate his problems and help himself to survive. Word count: 1311, not including bibliography. BIBLIOGRAPHY. Primary Text. Defoe, Daniel., Robinson Crusoe. Ed. Richetti, John (London: Penquin Books Ltd., 2001). Secondary text. Hammond, J.R., A Defoe Companion (London: The Macmillan Press., 1993), pp.67-79. Moore, J.R., Daniel Defoe, Citizen of the Modern World (London: Cambridge University Press., 1958), pp. 215-246. Richetti, John,J., Defoe's Narratives Situations and Structures (Oxford: Clarendon Press., 1975) pp.19-62.