For the outside reading project I am reading Robinson Crusoe. This was written in 1719 so the writing is a little tedious and and full of horribly unnecessary run on sentences. My copy is 482 pages long and Crusoe finally got on the island on page 70. I had a no difficulty getting in to the book because events happen so fast in the beginning that they almost trip over each other, but when he becomes stranded the pace slows way down. A strong feeling I have says I am going to have a hard a time reading the almost two-hundred and fifty pages that he is completely alone and doing nothing exciting.

Of the five literary elements the most prominent is tone. I thought it would be imagery since he talks all about the necessary things he has to build to survive, but he doesn't describe things; he lectures about them. Robinson talks very introspectively most of the novel so any of the other traits were fairly rare and it wasn't hard to choose the most dominant one. The tone is pretty much the same for large chunks of the book but when an event is about to happen or Robinson makes some intellectual breakthrough the tone suddenly shifts away rather dramatically.