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 the world and human nature in his 19th century novel Moll Flanders.
             Daniel Defoe, much like his novel, grew up in an environment where you had to play by the rules. If these rules were to be broken you where either killed or placed in jail. Living in this kind of atmosphere gave Defoe a temperament, which can file with sudden violent access, which distinguished the debased forms of so-called Euangelicism.
             Defoe became a man with a criminal mind. He was a fugitive and was put in Newgate Prison and was later released by a pardon from the queen. For eighteen months he talked to thieves, pirates, highwaymen, and coiners before he wrote his famous novel Moll Flanders. Although most of his information came from other prisoners, he lived through most of the incidents he wrote about.
             Daniel Defoe had a unique writing style. Many would say he was known for his "journal entry" (internet) style of writing. He gave factual information and details of practical knowledge. Critics say, "When readers complained about the repetition of some themes, he pointed out that his aim was to get his ideas across as plainly and as forcefully as possibly, and for that a degree of repetition was necessary" (Battestin 153). Many agreed by saying Defoe created, "an understanding likeness to real life"
             (Backscheider 13). Defoe enjoyed letting his readers experience his life through all his writings and novels.
             The beginning of the novel takes place in the city of London in 1613. Defoe p...