"Typee" by Herman Melville.

The "Civil" and The "Savage"
Herman Melville in his book Typee gives the "civilized" world a peek at the "uncivilized" world in the Nukuhiva valley. Through his speaker Tommo's experiences in the valley Melville shows the "civilized" world what it would be like to live in harmony with nature. He thinks that the people who live close to the nature are much happier, healthier and are free from most of the miseries that the people of the "civilized" world go through. He says, "In a primitive state of society, the enjoyments of life, though few and simple, are spread over a great extent, and…