Kulturmødet mellem Robinson Crusoe og Friday

We’re 1659. The year of when a Christian sailor named Robinson Crusoe shipwrecked alone on an Island. He lived alone for many years, trying to be as civilized as the Island would permit him.One day, he sees four savages at the beach. One of them has drowned, and the others are about to eat him. Scared by this insolence to the human body and the thought of being eaten himself, he takes his musket and shoots at the cannibals. He kills two, before he finds out that the last one is a slave. He names him Friday. The day of the week he rescued him.Well. That is one site of the story. Friday on the other hand, wasn’t a prisoner. Yes, they were about to eat another human, but that would be as a friendly gesture. They would honor his soul be eating his limps. A kind of a last request.Crusoe had no possible way to had known that before he shot. He was certain that shooting the cannibals was the right thing to do. And I agree. Wouldn’t you also shoot the unknown, if the unknown was about to eat another human being? You most certain would be next.Crusoe for the civilized human being he is, now accompanied with a savage has to teach him about right and wrong. How to live.This can might be seen as a violation for his way to live, but of course it is best being civilized, at least that is what Crusoe have taught. He teaches him to talk English, about currency and about his own God. In all of this time, Crusoe think he’s converting Friday, but later we find out that, that is exactly what Friday wants him to think. At the same time, Friday is trying to convert Crusoe to his way of life. The whole time Crusoe is being honest, tells him that he needs to be like Crusoe himself. Whether that is right or wrong is not of importance here. Friday is pretending. Pretending a lot of things, for the sake of converting Crusoe without he knows it. I can’t really say what the worst is, or the best for that matter. Trying very clear to say, hey, you should be like this, or secretly on the subconscious level. Friday miss his tribe so he wants to leave, and Crusoe don’t feel like staying on the Island for much more time. After many tries to get to the Fridays Island, where his tribe lives, they finally manage it by flying there. Friday tells the tribe about what has happened. And that leads to the question “Should Crusoe be admitted?”I think that he should. He’s been honest the whole time. He would be terrible lost if his company were to leave him. He’s already been living for like, 15 years alone, and 15 years with Friday.He already admitted that he’s been doing some wrongs, and are now sorry for those, and hope that he can be a member of the tribe. Friday is against it, because he says that the civilization culture of Crusoe is a bad thing. That he have seen what it does to people. But it would almost the same as a kill to abandon Crusoe to himself again. First, he can’t come back to the Island. Even if he comes back to his Island, he would probably just get insane by being alone the rest of his life. What is he going to do then, if they don’t admit him? If they do admit him though, they will have to deal with the problems he might be able to cause. Curiosity for the world outside mostly, which could lead to questions about if their way to live is the best.In the end of the text Friday sings poem, comparing the tribe to a tree.A tribe changes. When something tries to bring the tribe down, they stand up for themselves. No outsider should come here and tell them what to do; nobody knows what that would lead to. It could be their doom to take Crusoe in. I believe that there is some good in Crusoe. He’s been taught to live a completely other live than what the Tribe has been using.Say yes, vote Crusoe.