List five differences in Crusoe's surroundings before and after shipwreck in Robinson Crusoe.

Before Crusoe's shipwreck, he has access to other human beings, clothing, shelter, weapons, tools, and food and drink. In the period immediately after his shipwreck, he has none of these things, as detailed in the following passage:

I began to look round me, to see what kind of place I was in, and what was next to be done; and I soon found my comforts abate, and that, in a word, I had a dreadful deliverance; for I was wet, had no clothes to shift me, nor anything either to eat or drink to comfort me; neither did I see any prospect before me but that of perishing with hunger or being devoured by wild beasts; and that which was particularly afflicting to me was, that I had no weapon, either to hunt and kill any creature for my sustenance, or to defend myself against any other creature that might desire to kill me for theirs. In a word, I had nothing about me but a knife, a tobacco-pipe, and a little tobacco in a box.

What Crusoe does have after his shipwreck is an immense sense of wonder and gratitude at the simple fact of being alive, given that all of his shipmates perished. Once he finds the wrecked ship, his condition changes, as he finds food and other supplies that were not ruined in the wreck. Defoe takes care to show how Crusoe's conditions change as the result of his own efforts and labor; one message that the novel conveys is that even under the constraints of severe limitation, human beings can act to change and improve their own conditions.