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hman), ‘I will carry you thither in charity, and those things will help you to buy you subsistence there and your passage home again.’”(Defoe, 25) Defoe also depicted that this master was charitable not only in his proposal, but also just in his performance. In Brazil, he recommended Robinson to the house of a good honest man like himself. During his running the plantation, he brought him all sorts of tools, ironwork and utensils necessary for his plantation, and which were of great use to him. Before Robinson left Brazil’s plantation for sailing, he appointed the trustable captain as his heir. Then when Robinson came back, the integrated old man reclaimed all the property to him and also gave him useful advice. If above all were described as civilized people with good words for their deed good to them, the fourth captain was received the good deed from him still portrayed as the civilized westerners. This one was also a kind westerner with wise mind. Defoe repeatedly used the same words to describe those men in order to show westerners' kindness, honesty, integrity, and generosity, which showcased their civilization. The second symbol showed their civilization was that they had the sense of making a contract. When the saved Spaniard was pointed to deliver other of his companions, they made a contract. Another example during saving the captain and reclaiming the ship, Robinson made two conditions as a verbal contract. At length, they carried out as what they made beforehand. Here strengthened the westerner civilization. The third evidence of civilization was the great amount of narrative words to display the positive image of Robinson. Ingles once described this character was “a real capitalist”. (Ian, 1951) As the sole survivor of a shipwreck, he relied on his faith in God, intelligence and Protestant upbringing which decreed that the self-made man had to depend on himself, his own hard work and ingenuity in order to survive. He was not only mastered the skill of making tools, owning the modern science knowledge, emphasizing on humanism, order and law, and advocating honesty and loyalty. It narrated that he had all the noble and lottery personality of people. Defoe did a good job to create a situation where Robinson, who represented the 'Civilized Western Man', dominated nature and set up his 'colony' on the desert island. A large amount of details covered the evil colonial history as well as Crusoe’s colonial attitude—his possessiveness, his desire to exploit others, his willingness to enslave another human being. When he met Friday he felt that Friday was meant to become his slave, or servant, and that he had to be converted to Christianity. 2. The Ugly Black along the African Coast The opposite of the civilized white were the colored, especially the black had worse image than the Indies. With full of discrimination, the black were called as Negroes. In the novel, we could find that they had the character of simplicity, friendliness and wisdom. When Robinson asked some food to eat, they were so kindly to fetch the food for the stranger. They were not as foolish as we originally imagined, and thought out a good idea to give the food to Robinson within precaution of each other: “they took a safe way for us all, for they brought it to the shore and laid it down, and went and stood a great way off till we fetched it on board and then came close to us again.”(Defoe, 22) They lived with nature, and mastered many skills to support th