Robinson Crusoe storyline

During the fourth voyage, the ship encountered a storm and ran aground on the rocks. All the companions on the ship were killed. Only Robinson survived and drifted to an uninhabited island alone. He made a raft from the mast of the sunken ship, transported the food, clothes, guns and ammunition from the ship to the shore again and again, and set up a tent on the edge of the hill to settle down.

Then he used sharpened wooden stakes to build a fence around the tent and dug a hole behind the tent to live. He used simple tools to make tables, chairs and other furniture, hunted game for food, drank fresh water from the stream, and overcame the initial difficulties he encountered.

He began to grow barley and rice on the island, made his own wooden mortars, pestles, and sieves, processed flour, and baked rough bread. He captured, tamed, and bred wild goats. He also made pottery and so on to meet his daily needs. A "country house" and a breeding farm were also built on the other end of the desert island.

Despite this, Robinson never gave up looking for a way to leave the island. He cut down a big tree and spent five or six months making a canoe. However, the boat was too heavy to be dragged into the sea, so he had to waste all his efforts and build a new smaller boat. After Robinson lived alone on the island for 15 years, one day he found a footprint on the coast of the island.

Soon, he discovered human bones and traces of fire. It turned out that a group of savages from the outer island had held a human flesh feast here. Robinson was shocked. Since then he has been alert and more aware of his surroundings. Until the 24th year, another group of savages came to the island, bringing prisoners who were ready to kill and eat. After Robinson discovered it, he rescued one of them.

Because that day was Friday, Robinson named the rescued prisoner "Friday". Since then, "Friday" has become Robinson's loyal servant and friend. Then, Robinson took "Friday" to rescue a Spanish and "Friday"'s father. Soon a British ship anchored near the island. The sailors on the ship rebelled and abandoned the captain and three other people on the island. Robinson and "Friday" helped the captain subdue the group of rebellious sailors and recapture the ship.

He left the group of sailors on the island, and took "Friday" and the captain to leave the desert island and return to England. At this time Robinson has been away from home for 35 years (living on the island for 28 years). He married in England and had three children.

After the death of his wife, Robinson once again went to sea for business and passed by the desert island where he lived. At this time, the sailors and Spanish who stayed on the island had settled down and multiplied. Robinson sent some new immigrants, gave them the land on the island, and left them with various daily necessities, and left the island with satisfaction. Extended information

This novel was created because Defoe was inspired by a true story at that time. In September 1704, a Scottish sailor named Alexander Selkirk had an argument with the captain and was abandoned by the captain in the Atlantic Ocean. After living on a desert island for 4 years and 4 months, he was rescued by Captain Woods Rogers.

Based on Selkirk's legend, Defoe poured his many years of maritime experience into the characters, and made full use of his rich imagination for literary processing, making "Lu Binson" not only became a heroic figure in the minds of the small and medium-sized bourgeoisie at that time, but also became the first idealized emerging bourgeoisie in Western literature.

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