Into this fence or fortress, with infinite labour, carry'd all my riches, all my provisions, ammunition, and stores, of which you have the account above; and I made me a large tent, which, to preserve me from the rains that in one part of the year are very violent there, I made double, viz. one smaller tent within, and one larger tent above it, and covered the uppermost with a large tarpaulin which I had saved among the sails.
Questions:
A.Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.
B.Who is the narrator?
C.What are the narrator's characteristics and whom does he represent?
A.From Daniel Defoe's' Robinson Crusoe.
B.Robinson Crusoe.
C.Robinson is a typical 18th century English middle-class man, with great capacity for work,inexhaustible energy, courage, patience and persistence in overcoming obstacles, in struggling against the hostile natural environment. He is the very prototype of the empire builder, the pioneer colonist.
