Since the early 1990’s Defoe has written many great novels on which he has based his life upon. Out of his writings, Moll Flanders is by far the best description of Daniel’s young childhood up to his late adulthood. In this novel he expresses real life situations and compares them to his own experiences he has been through in the past centuries. Defoe assigns causes and motives foe events that reveal his feelings of …showed first 75 words of 1317 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1317 total…that there are many lessons we have to learn in life. Defoe lets us know this through his main character Moll Flanders who is portrayed as him in the novel. He describes her as a child born in Newgate Prison who was twelve year a whore, five times a wife, twelve years a thief, eight year a transported felon in Virginia, at last grew rich, lived, honest, and dies a penitent. Much like Defoe himself.