Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe

It is a novel by Daniel Defoe. Title character goes for sea voyages, even though his parents denied. Then there was a shipwreck & he reaches on an island. There he starts living all alone, with a bird & animals but without any human companion.

The novel can be read from angle of colonialism as Whitman's discovery of new land and establishing colony there. Crusoe makes his own hut and starts plantation there.

First of I given Definition of  Colonialism: The policy or practice of equiring full or partial political control over another country exploding it economically. 

After few time he saves a Negro boy from other cannibals. And because he arrived on Friday, Crusoe gives him name "Friday". Crusoe makes him his slave.

Crusoe teaches him English language, and tries to civilize him. We can apply here concept of "Whitman's burden". All the white man were thinking that it is their duty to civilize the world. They are the choosen people by god. They are the only civilized & superior race, the rest are the barbarians.