Brian had a positive, sensible and bold personality which saved him from the problems. As I read along the sentences, I thought that the story is very similar to Robinson Crusoe, which tells a survival of a man who gets isolated in an island. Robinson had to face the hunger, loneliness and fear through his adventure.However, Robinson is a man and Brian is a boy. Since Brian is much younger, the problems were more realistic and closer to
William Cronon chronologically begins with the insight of Henry David Thoreau’s journal as part one. Thoreau vastly expands on his point that the Environment and the human society went through a change from savagery to civilization (qtd. in Cronon 6). In part two Cronon goes on to illustrate how the European settlers weren’t used to the new world and began to bring the English culture to life, in which shipping became a major factor. The English wanted to replace Indians mobility and establish permanent
In the novel Waterland the setting is one of the most important factors in the book. Tom Crick is a fifty-two year old history teacher, who has been teaching for around 30 years. Tom is married to Mary Metcalf, who used to work in an elderly home. The headmaster at the school where Tom teaches, Lewis Scott, is shutting down the history program and forcing Tom into an early retirement. After students asking him what the relevance of learning history is, he changes his teaching methods from presenting
Postcolonial Nations, Islands, and Tourism examines how real and literary islands have helped to shape the idea of the nation in a postcolonial world. Through an analysis of a variety of texts ranging from literature to prison correspondence to tourist questionnaires it exposes the ways in which nationalism relies on fictions of insularity and intactness, which the island and island tourism appear to provide. The island space seems to offer the ideal replica of the nation, and tourist practices promise