Robinson Crus

Robinson Crusoe

Robinson’s life and the dream of the sea:

Robinson Crusoe was born in 1632 in the city of York. He came from a good family of trader who had seen the death of the first two Robinson’s brothers, therefore, when he said he wanted to go to sea to make his adventures there they were strongly disagree.

Indeed, afther he had lived a life in this wish, although he became very rich, Robinson had passed a great number of trials and misfortunes.

Although his father tried to warn him about usless dangers that he would have met in his jurney and tried to explain him that he had an enviable life, he decided to leave his family and his city in a ship bound for London.

The voyage was a real misfortunes and Robison promised himself that he would respected his father’s will and his duty to God, but after few days he undertook another one.

Robinson’ youthful voyages:

At first he struggled with the idea of returning home, but then he thought that he would be ashamed and embarked in his only entirely successful voyage. As the captain had suggest him, robinson sold some trinkets he had took with himself and he obtain 300 pound. Eager to build up his trade he returned to guinea but, while he was travelling the ship was attacked by turkish pirates, so Robinson was make slave for the moorish sovrain.

As time went by, Robinson gained his master's trust and was able to escape. He sailed to Cape Verde where he met a Portuguese ship bound for Brazil, where he set up his own business, establishing a plantation and trading network.

The island captivity:

When his friends proposed him to travell to Africa and bought some negroes slaves Robinson accepted the propose although he needn't slaves and sign both deal and his main misfortunes.

In this voyage, indeed, the shipping had a shipwhreck and Robinson, after scraped trought the storm, reached the shore of a lonely island where he lived most of his life.

In this voyage, indeed, the shipping had a shipwhreck and Robinson, after scraped trought the storm, reached the shore of a lonely island where he lived most of his life.

During his first two years on the island, Robinson built two shelters for himself using what he had salvaged from the wreckage in the first month. The main shelter was at the foot of a hill and also had a cave, while the second, was a bower in a valley full of fruit trees.

Near these two shelters, he set up two plantations, learned to make pots of clay, built a bakery to make bread and, finally, stopped hunting goats and tamed them for breeding and when, following a powerful earthquake, he risked being buried, he also learned to be grateful to God, so every anniversary of his arrival on the island he spent his time giving thanks to Him.

The turning point:

In the sixth year of his residence Robinson decided to build himself a boat to explore all the coasts of the island. After several months of preparation and failure, he set out with provisions but was caught in a strong current that carried him out to sea.

Initially, he tried to struggle but gave up once he had exhausted all his strength. Fortunately the hand of providence brought him back to the island where, once on the beach, he knelt down to thank God.

Although he safed the boat for future use, he never did it again and returned to his shelter, situate on the other side of the island, on foot where he made another boat. Determined to take the boat and bringh it in his side of the island, one day Robinson returned to the beach where he found a footprint of a naked human foot.

That moment was a turning point in his life on the island: first, he knelt down to thank God that he had not met any savages in 15 years, simply because they did not frequent his part of the island, then he spent the next 8 years making both his fance and his refuge stronger, splitting his flock and from that moment foraward he was extremely careful when he move in te island and when he work.

The solution:

Having lived several years in a state of agitation, Robinson concluded that he needed someone to help him to leave the island. Thanks to the hand of providence, not long afterwards he rescued a prisoner of the savages before they could eat him.

Robinson called him on Friday, as the day he had rescued him, and he offered him his most devoted service in return.

Friday helped Robinson a lot in his work and, after he had learned to speak Robinson's language, he explained to him that it was possible to reach the main land with a large canoe, so they starting built it. However, the way of salvation that providence had prepared for them was quite different.

Another group of savages landed on the island with three prisoners. Robinson and Friday saved two of them: a spaniard and Friday's father. When they had chased off the savages they talked to each other and robinson discovered that 17 spaniards were living on the main land.

He immediately thought that together they might be able to save themselves so he invited them to come to his island to work together on a ship to get to the spanish territories and return home.

However, while the spaniard and friday's father had returned to the mainland in the canoe they had built, a small ship of mutinous english sailors arrived. so, after rescuing the spaniard and defeating the mutineers, robinson and friday embarked for England.

Home business:

When Robinson returned home after 28 years he went to visit his family and some of his friends, including his friend the captain who gave him some money.

Later he decided to go to lisbon to get information about his plantation and his friends in Brazil. In Lisbon he received some of his past earnings and set up his business. After returning overland to england he decided to return to Brazil and, in addition, visit the 17 spaniards on his island and this led to another chapter of adventure in Robinson's life.

The end