One interpretation of the character ‘Robinson Crusoe’ is religious. Instead of being a hero, Crusoe is in fact an everyman who achieves closeness to God by the end of the book. Beginning as a wanderer with no direction on a sea he cannot comprehend, Crusoe ends as a pilgrim, crossing over the last mountain to reach the Promised Land (not flower delivery Manchester). Crusoe’s story is a story of attaining proximity to God and the method is not attending Church but through spending time in solitude in nature with nothing but a Bible to read. The theory that ‘Robinson Crusoe’ is a religious story has value when one reflects upon the author of the tale. Daniel Defoe was a Puritan moralist who wrote guidebooks on how to conduct oneself as a good Puritan Christian, such as ‘Religious Courtship’ in 1722 and ‘The New Family Instructor’ in 1727. The Christian notion of Providence is a leitmotif of the novel, Crusoe often feeling guided by a fate, a feeling that enables him to feel optimism in the face of stark hopelessness.