THE JOURNAL – Daniel Defoe

 

WHO: Robinson Crusoe

WHERE: a dismal unfortunate island

WHEN: 1659

WHAT: How R. C. survived on the island

 

NARRATOR: first person narrator (Robinson Crusoe)

FORM: Diary/Journal

LANGUAGE: short sentences, easy words, colloquial language.

 

FIRST PART

PROTAGONIST: Name and surname (Robinson Crusoe), condition (shipwrecked person), emotions and feelings (poor, miserable, afflicted, despair), actions (came on shore, afflicting, looking for wild beasts, sleeping)

SETTING: Island (dismal, unfortunate, Island of Despair, with wild beasts, savages) clime (dreadful storm, it rained all night)

WORDS: concrete nouns (storm, ship’s company, food, house, clothes, weapon, wild beasts), abstract adjective (dreadful, dismal unfortunate, despair). Suffering clime given by adjective that are related to desperation and death fields. Nouns related to necessities for which he is looking for.

 

SECOND PART

PROTAGONIST: emotions and feelings (surprised, grieved for other’s death, perplex), actions (looking for the ship getting close to the shore and think about what to do for having food, swam on the ship and picking up food)

SETTING: Island (shore, tide) clime (windy, raining without wind)

WORDS: concrete nouns (shore, tide, ship, wind, food, boat, ruins, sand), abstract adjective (surprise, floated, high, not broken, renewed). Nouns related to actions that the protagonist does. Adjectives related at the concept of renaissance of the life of a person.

 

THIRD – FOURTH – FIFTH PARTS:

PROTAGONIST: actions (making voyages to get all he could out from the ship, covering and securing saved goods)

SETTING: Island (shore) clime (fair weather, rainy season, gusts of wind, wind blowing)

WORDS: concrete nouns (tide, flood, rafts, goods, wreck), abstract adjective (chiefly heavy, broke, little harder). Nouns related to sea fields. Adjectives related to the field of the work and the possibility of survive although obstacles.

 

 

LETTER XI – Samuel Richardson

 

WHO: Pamela

WHERE: Summer’s house where Pamela work

WHEN: (around 1741)

WHAT: what happened during a meeting with his boss

NARRATOR: first person narrator (Pamela)

FORM: Letter

LANGUAGE: short sentences, easy word, colloquial language

 

 

ANALISY

PROTAGONIST: feelings and emotions (I would have gone out, I stood still confounded, and began to tremble, as filled me with affrightment, struggled and trembled, benumbed with terror, scared, fear of the worst, terror and anguish), considerations about her (a little fool, foolish slut), propouse and accords (I will make a gentlewoman of you, if you be obliging, and don’t stand in your own light), actions (sunk down, exit in the garden)

SECONDARY PROTAGONIST: actions (took her by the hand, honour, put his arm about her, and kissed her, kissing her with frightful eagerness, calling to her), considerations about him (all his wickedness appeared plainly), feelings and emotions (angry, vexed and confused)

SETTING: Summer house (little garden), clime (not said)

WORDS: concrete nouns (servant, place, soul, girl, lady, little fool, gentlewoman, hussy, foolish hussy, servant, prince), abstract nouns (business, honour, terror, fear, respect, harm, sir, honest, money, truth), other parts of the speech (confounded, tremble, faithful, obliging, affrightment, wildly, little hastily, wickedness, struggled, trembled, afraid, sobbed, sadly, poor, angry, blubbering, unworthy, fear, disobedient). Concrete nouns refer to fields of works and nobility, abstract nouns refer to the field of how a gentleman have to be or haven’t to be, others figures refer to emotions and feelings of the protagonists of the story