The Tower Of Babel

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a kidnapped boy, named David, who,
through his growing cultural tolerance and open-mindedness, matures from a
naive adolescent to a young man capable of dealing with crisis and
accepting his role in the culturally divided world.
Despite extensive cultural differences, the Highlanders and
Lowlanders represent two halves of a society that must intermingle in order
to reach their summit of individual and group possibilities. These two
definitive cultures of Highlanders and Lowlanders are represented
respectively by Alan and David. In the story, David is frequently
portrayed as one who dislike Highlanders, and his adventures show why. His
first guide tries to cheat him, with the belief that all Lowlanders are
easy targets. The second guide believing too, that Lowlanders are easy
targets, questioned David extensively with "Where I came from, whether I
was rich, whether I could change a five shilling piece" (Stevenson 102-103).
Perhaps the worst fault shown by Stevenson in the ...

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