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ankful for in it; and let this stand as a direction from the experience of the most miserable of all conditions in the world, that we may always find in it something to comfort ourselves from and to set in the description of good and evil on the credit side of the account. Robinson made a comparison between the evil and good, and understood that he got more than he lost indeed. As time went on, he learned to take more upon the bright side of his condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what he enjoyed rather than what he wanted. Somebody thinks that if one gets great prestige, he will lose the freedom that the ordinary have; if one gets enormous wealth, he will lose the ease when he is sleeping; if one gets brisk business, he will lose a lot of time…In a word, if everyone can think of his own gain and loss seriously, he will find that there is real loss in varying degrees in the process of gaining. B. Making Plans for the Future on the Island so that I had a tolerable view of subsisting without any want as long as I lived; for I considered from the beginning how I would provide for the accidents that might happen and for the time that was to come, even not only after my ammunition should be spent, but even after my health or strength should decay.( Daniel Defoe, 50) From this, people can see that Robinson is a foresighted person. When he ran into the adversity, he could deal with it calmly, and he could consider his future rationally. Some people will lose his reasoning power when he is in a bad condition. But Robinson made plans for his future life on the island. For example, he made a plan for his daily work: every morning he walked out with his gun for two or three hours if it did not rain, then worked until about eleven o’clock, then ate what he had, and lay down to sleep from twelve to two as the weather was excessively hot, and then continued to work until the evening. He made plan not only for his daily work but also for his food, bullets and powder. His food was very limited. He always ate cannily. And he tried his best to find something eatable. Some times he went hunting, which he could get some meat for eating through. And he tried to tame the sheep. Then he got not only milk but also some mutton. His bullets were used cannily and seriously. Only when it is quite necessary, he would use it. As for his powder, he considered it carefully; he separated his stock of powder into many little parcels to avoid danger. And he used them according to his plan. Because he did not know how long he would live on the island. Owing to his consideration and plans for his future life, he could live on the island for such a long time. Assume that Robinson did not consider his future life and did not make a series of plans for it, he spent his food, bullets casually, and how could he live on? No one knows. C. Learning to Bring Forth New Ideas When He Is Short of the Necessity Though Robinson got a lot of things from the ship that wrecked, he was still short of some necessity, such as a table and a chair, a basket, some earthen vessels and a stone mortar. When he faced the shortage of the necessity, he did not give up but think of ways to make out those necessities. Without a table, he could not write, eat or do other things. So he set to work and made a table and a chair. He just took the materials he had. Though it took him a lot of time and labor, he finished them. And when he needed a basket in his life, he tr