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The Merry Adventures Of Robinhood

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The Merry Adventures of Robinhood is a novel by a man named Howard Pyle. This book consists of the many different adventures of a young lad named Robinhood and all of his many merry men. For the past two months, we have been reading this novel in English class. We have taken many notes, and have almost finished the book. Since we have read so much of this novel, we have a pretty clear idea of who Robinhood is and how he is as a person. Throughout the story, we see Robinhood grow as a character and help many people while getting into different accounts of mischief. Robinhood had the goal of helping people. Robin’s main mission in his life was to help the less fortunate and the poor, along with women and children. He chose to help …show more content…

It's not just to please God. Robinhood understands what it is like to be in need and he helps them. He does many things like give them money, food, etc. That is Godly character, but it never mentions anywhere in the book that Robinhood is doing it to be more like Jesus Christ. In fact, Robinhood does not always help the less fortunate by doing things the Godly way. Instead, Robinhood has been known to lie to the rich and steal loads of money. Ephesians 4:28 states, “Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.” That bible verse clearly states that you should do honest work. Stealing and lying is not an act of honest work. Robinhood continuously lies and steals without any form of remorse. If Robinhood was a true Christ follower, he would realize that his actions of stealing are wrong and that he should collect money the right way. If Robinhood really wanted to be more like Jesus, he would repent of his sin and at least feel a little bit of guilt. Despite the fact that Robinhood steals, Robin is a very well respected young man by many people. There were multiple occasions in the book where someone stumbled upon Robinhood and they had respect for him because they heard of the thoughtful things that he does for other people. There are many different reasons as to why people like

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