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I read "Robinson Crusoe" this novel, deeply by the story of the master Von Robinson moved, after he suffered shipwreck drifted to the island, not lament the fate of injustice, but make full use of their own minds and hands, to build houses, plant crops, animal breeding, tool making, and in despair helpless with his tenacity and perseverance and hunger, disease, fight, rescued finally victory.At first, Robinson carrying his parents followed a boat out to sea, but died in a the ship, he spent a long time in the vast sea, the sea into a no human habitation of the island, there are no people on this island, but he died on board a a dog and two cats, he tried to ask for help to the ships, but found that one man on the boat is pirates. He built a "house" with some items side only, and later in the wrecked ship found some bread, wine, clothes, bullets and so on…… Thus began his twenty-eight years two months nine days island drifting. In such a long time, he not only to overcome the loneliness and solitude, but also against hunger and disease, but can not let the sea robbers found him, he always optimistic face so that he can survive, cherish every opportunity, in the face of difficulties, he was afraid, but always escape conquer yourself and the hope of life. After reading this novel, I really was Robinson's tenacity and courage deeply touched, he in such a difficult environment, put yourself out from despair, I touched me most is his perseverance, Robinson over twenty years, hope is the determination of the students, I can not help but think of our own in our life, for learning, is it right? Should also learn from him? Difficult is it right? Should brave face and not in the escape? I remember in the learning process, often encounter some difficulties, I do not think of ways to overcome it, but difficult to play hide and seek, once, my special feeling to a mathematical problem of interest, but not always get the thing to understand, if I want to make sure this thing, need to spend a lot of time and energy, so I feel at ease and justified to give up, but later in the exam I encountered the same problem, I still didn't get rid of, I regret, I though temporary "around" the difficulties, but the difficulties and finally again and I met. Today we are in life, learning difficulties and compared to Robinson, or difficult? I must get rid of my bad habits, the difficulties encountered no longer "around the" a walk, but to be like Robinson, brave struggle with difficulties. Friend, have you read this book? If not I suggest you have a look! You will like me moved!

The story of Robinson Crusoe is simple, uncomplicated and very moving. A sailor Robinson because the ship sank and stranded in the deserted island, spent 28 years. In the situation of no way out, he began to think of ways to save himself ---- to make rafts, build houses, grow food, raise livestock, and put all his efforts into the struggle with nature. He relied on his own hands, with their own wisdom, spent decades to turn this deserted island into a "paradise", but also bravely saved an indigenous "Friday", and he lived together. And when he was ready to live on the deserted island, he got a chance to return to England by chance.

  Reading this book, we are easily moved by Robinson's self-improvement, hard work and courage to create the spirit. But why can Robinson have this kind of spirit? Why is he able to persevere alone? Today, I would like to share Robinson's journey and his own insights through some fragments of the book.

  1.just after the shipwreck of the psychological monologue

 Indeed, you are currently alone, all alone, this is true. But, you do not think, your companions? Where did they go? When you were on the boat together, there were eleven of you, weren't there? Then, where did the other ten go? Why did they die, leaving you alone and still alive? Is it better to stay here on the island or to go to them? 

  2. Balance of mind after exile

 I compared all the current misfortunes and benefits, so that I could be content with my life. I followed the format of business bookkeeping, divided into "debit" and "credit", and fairly arranged my fortune and misfortune, good and bad.

  Woe: I was stranded on a deserted island, and there was no hope of getting out of my predicament.

  Woe: I have no clothes to wear; blessing: I am in the tropics, even if I have clothes, I can't wear them

  3、Begin to believe in faith

  I am not a believer, and never bound myself by religious commandments, thinking that everything is by chance or simply attributed to providence, and never inquiring into the will of the Creator and the principles that govern all things in this world. But when I saw that barley was growing here, even though the climate was not suitable for growing cereals, and that I knew nothing about how this barley grew, I was naturally astonished, and it occurred to me that this could only be a miracle shown by God - that a crop could grow without being sown. It also occurred to me that God had done this so that I could live on this deserted and isolated island.

  4、Insight when I was sick

  But now, I was sick, and the miserable situation of death gradually appeared before me. I had sinned greatly and offended God, so now God came to punish me with an extraordinary blow and treated me with this retributive means.

  When I thought of this, I cried out again, "O God, save me! I am at the end of my rope!"

  5. Insight after the illness

  I thought of the words of the Bible at times, "And I will save you." But I felt so deeply that salvation was not possible that I did not dare to hope for it. I was discouraged by this thought when I suddenly realized that I was so focused on God saving me from my current predicament that I did not think that I had already been saved. So I asked myself: Wasn't I saved from my illness? Is it not a miracle?

  6、The first anniversary of my insight

  Today, September 13, is exactly one year since I arrived on the deserted island. It was an unfortunate day. I counted the carvings on the pillars and found that I had been ashore for 365 days. I set this day as a fasting day and held a religious ceremony, kneeling down with extreme devotion and humility, asking God to confess my sins, accepting his just punishment for me, and begging him to have mercy on me and forgive me through Jesus Christ.

  7. Thoughts on wealth

  I have learned from facts and experience that all things in this world are most valuable only if they are useful. Anything that is accumulated more should be given to others; what we can enjoy is at most the part we can use, and it is useless to have more.

 8、Thinking about gratitude

  I have learned to look more at the bright side of my life and less at the dark side of my life; to think more about what I have enjoyed and less about what I lack. It is hard to express the heartfelt comfort that this attitude has made me feel inside. I write these words here in the hope that those who are not satisfied will awaken to the fact that they do not enjoy God's gifts comfortably because they are always expecting and desiring what they have not yet received. I feel that we always feel unsatisfied with what we lack because we lack gratitude for what we have already received.

 9. Thoughts on reality

  I began to blame myself for being in a blessed temper and for not complaining about a lonely life. Now, I would give anything to get me back on shore! However, we ordinary mortals, without personally experiencing worse circumstances, we will never see the superiority of our original environment; without falling to the point of exhaustion, we do not know how to appreciate all that we originally enjoyed.

 10、After the rescue of Friday

 God has his own providence in the arrangement of the world. In his governance of his creation, on the one hand he deprives many creatures in the world of their talents and conscience, and on the other hand, he gives them the same abilities, the same reason, the same feelings, the same goodness and sense of responsibility as we civilized people, and the same cynicism as we do; they know the same gratitude as we do, and they know the same gratitude, the same sincerity, the same faithfulness, the same loyalty. They know the same gratitude, sincerity, faithfulness, and mutual goodness as we do.

11. Discussing God and the Devil with Friday

  Friday asked, "If God is stronger and more powerful than the devil, why doesn't God kill the devil so that he won't do evil again?"

 I replied, "God will eventually punish the devil severely, and the devil will surely be judged and thrown into the bottomless abyss to endure the fires of hell for all eternity."

 He asked me again, "Ultimately and surely, I don't understand. But why not kill the devil now? Why not kill the devil at an early age?"

  I replied, "When you ask me this, you are asking why God did not kill you and me, because we have also sinned against God. God kept us to give ourselves a chance to repent and to be forgiven.

 

  Robinson's twenty-eight years of life on a desert island was actually spent contemplating the meaning of his life and God's arrangements for his life. 28 years allowed him to build a faith, and it was this faith that allowed him to sustain himself and live a fuller and happier life.

  Personally, I am not religious, but I think people need faith. Faith is not to believe in God or the Lord in a narrow sense, but to set a goal for one's life and living and to find a home for one's heart.