Letters 1-4

Robert Walton seems very ambitious and knows that he wants to sail the seas. I'm not totally sure what he expects to find out there, but he is very determined to find whatever he is looking for. The stranger seems like he was at one time ambitious, but lost in some way that ambitiousness because of failure. Both characters are curious about the world and ask a lot of questions, they are also both gentle creatures. Robert is very caring for the stranger, and the stranger has a gentleness about him that draws Robert to him. They both have like minds in the way they think. Though Robert already has his own goals that he wants to achieve, he is willing to take into consideration the history of the stranger. He is willing to here the warning from the stranger in order to prevent what might be his own wring doings/inquiries. He and the stranger are alike in this aspect because they are both open people, just as Robert is willing to listen to the stranger, the stranger was also willing to listen to Robert's tale of his own pursuits and what wouldn't stop him to get there. But they are both different as well because Robert will do anything in order to obtain his goal, he says that human life is a small price to pay in order to get the knowledge that he wants. At the mention of this dark statement, the stranger began to cry because he was once like this too, but he changed his ways because of some unknown events.