The most important moral that we can get from reading this
book is the idea that even people who have no reason to be friendly can become friends.
This is an important lesson for us in today's world where so many different kinds of
people seem to hate one another.
Much of this story is
about a friendship between two people who are really quite different. David is young
and not very worldly. More importantly, he is Protestant and a Whig (a person who wants
Parliament to have power). By contrast, Alan is older and very experienced. He is
Catholic and he wants King James to be returned to the throne. These are serious
differences, both of personality and of religion and
politics.
Despite these differences, Alan and David become
friends. The book is largely about their friendship and the loyalty they feel to one
another. Therefore, this book is trying to get us to see that people can be friends
even if they are from groups who are traditional enemies.
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