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English

Mrs. Blodgett

Robby Collins

Robinson Crusoe

Chapter 1

Robinson Crusoe is a young man born in England in 1632. He has a strong

yearning for the sea due to his being untrained in a trade like his brothers. His

father is in strong disagreement with Robinson’s wish to go to sea. He has already

lost one of his sons to war and is not willing to let another die if he has anything to

say about it. Despite his father’s plea with him to remain at home and settle,

Robinson decides to run away. One day he was down near the sea and he met a

friend who was going to London soon and he convinced Robinson to go with him. So

Robinson Crusoe set off without so much as sending word to his family.

Chapter 2

Robinson has been through much difficulty over the last few years which

included shipwrecking and being sold as a slave. He settled down for a number of

years and then (of course) sets sail again. This time he is headed for Guinea and

his ship wrecks on a sand bar and only he survives. He is now stranded with a

knife, a pipe, and a little tobacco. He sleeps in a tree his first night and the next

morning he finds the nearly intact, but unsailable ship upon the shore. Over the

next thirteen days he proceeds to retrieve everything he could from the ship which

included a dog and two cats. On the fourteenth day, after a severely windy night,

he woke up to the discovery that the ship had disappeared.


Chapter 3

Now that he has all he can get from the ship he begins to create a new home

for himself. He has made himself a tent and has found/created a cave in a kind of

hollowed wall inwhich he will store his possessions. Robinson cuts large postsand

drives them into the ground in a semi-circle surrounding his tent. He then

intertwines lengths of cable into the many solid posts to create an impenetrable

type of fence. The only entrance to his abode is a short, removable ladder which he

can use to climb on top of his cave-like dwelling. After finishing his home he

organizes his possessions and his thoughts begin to wander to the negatives and

positives of his situation. He is able to create a positive attitude toward his

situation.

Chapter 4

Robinson Crusoe has need of many everyday objects, but he has had no

experience with any tools and so must learn the trade as he goes. He fashions

himself a table and a chair though it takes him a very long time to make them

usable and satisfactory to his own standards. He then decides to dig deeper into

the rock/cave behind his tent. However, he wishes for special tools such as a

pickaxe, a shovel, and a means of moving the dirtto make the job easier. So he sets

off to make himself a shovel, having found a good makeshift pickaxe. He finds a

tree of incredible hardness and so creates a wooden shovel from the tree. Having

made a shovel he fashions “… a thing like a hod, which the labourers carry mortar

in when they serve the bricklayers…”

Chapter 5

Robinson rediscovers a small bag of corn feed but it has been eaten by rats

and only dust and husks are left. So he dumps the dust on the ground outside his
cave dwelling. Sometime later he discovers that the place where he dumped the

dust has sprouted corn, barley, and rice. By now Robinson has dug deep enough

into the rocks that he decides to seal off the ground entrance. Instead of a door he

creates a hole in the roof of the cave through which he accesses his dwelling by way

of a ladder. Then he is plagued by a severe illness which caused him to be

bedridden for several days. During this period he has a vivid dream and some life

changing revelations and consequentlyturns his life over to god. He then begins his

recovery from the illness that nearly took his life.

Chapter 6

Robinson becomes restless staying near his home and so he sets off to

explore further into the island. He discovers a large valley filled with plants he does

not know enough about to use. On his second trip to the valley he finds an

abundance of fruit bearing trees and plants. He decides to set up a second home in

this valley and starts working on creating an area much like the first. But his

progress is hindered by a season of pounding rain that lasted around two months.

During this time he realizes that he has come upon the one year point since his

disastrous arrival on the island. He dedicates this day to fasting and praising God

for His blessings of provision.

Chapter 7

Robinson travels to the other side of the island with his dog and discovers

that he has made his home on the bad side of the island. This side is inhabited by a

large number of turtles and birds that are good to eat. Here he captures a parrot

and a young goat which he takes home with him. He tames the parrot and over

many years trained it to speak. He leaves his goat at his second dwelling in the

valley and when he returns for it he finds that it has nearly starved. He feeds it and
it immediately becomes domesticated and willing to follow Robinson wherever he

leads. He has come upon the second year anniversary of his landing and he keeps

it in the same way as he did before. Though little is said about the doings of the

past year, it is clear that he was kept busy at all times.

Chapter 8

On days when Robinson is not able to be outside due to the rain he speaks to

his parrot to train it. Then he thinks of making dishes out of clay and so sets out to

find some that was suitable for what he has in mind. Then during the rainy season

he sets about making pots, bowls, plates, etc. Though his first attempts at this art

are not at all pretty, they are useful. Then he comes upon an idea for making a pot

that could stand the heat of the fire with water in it. He finds a broken piece of one

of his early creations in his fire and discovers that the sand and the heat could make

a pot to boil water in. His excitement at having a worthy boiling pot cannot be

understood except by those who have been in such a situation.

Chapter 9

Robinson has created everything he needs plus extra, but he knows that

anything he cannot use will go to waste. So he kills only what he needs to eat and

cuts only what he needs to build with. He begins breeding goats and finds that the

investment could bring him such comforts as milk and cheese in addition to the

goat meat. He has made his existence as comfortable as he can as so resigns

himself to considering the matters of the heart. He begins to reflect upon the

circumstances he wasunder. He begins to realize that being the only man on the

island made for no conflicts or struggles for power. He is the only authority and had

no rivals for his position. He decides that this is the plan of God and submits

himself completely to the will of the Lord.


Chapter 10

One day Robinson finds a distinct human footprint in the sand and is shocked

beyond comprehension. Suddenly he is overwhelmed with the fear that someone is

hunting him. He holes up in his fortress of a dwelling and cowers there in fear.

Slowly he comes to realize that his fear and cowardliness was a completeloss of

trust in God. His former confidence in God’s divine providence was completely

consumed by his fear. After this realization he once again devotes his life to God’s

Guidance and banishes his fear. Gradually he rebuilds his confidence to the point of

being able to walk about without looking over his shoulder every second.

Chapter 11

One early morning Robinson wakes to find that five canoes have landed on

the island. The canoes carry several men in each and he estimates there to be

between twenty and thirty men. The men drag two men from the canoes and

prepare to kill them. While they take down one of the prisoners the other bolts

away and about five of the men give chase. The man unknowingly ran straight

toward Crusoe’s fortress dwelling and he decides to assist the running man. Only

two men make it to the creek between Robinson’s residence and the area where

they had landed. As soon as they reach the shore after the escaping man Robinson

fires his gun at them and the men are so scared that they fall immediately to the

ground. He takes the man into his home and the man insists upon becoming his

servant. Robinson names him Friday because that was the day he rescued him on.

Chapter 12

Friday has been Robinson’s servant for a long time now and Crusoe has

taught him to speak English. He begins a deep spiritual conversation with Friday

and begins to guide him towards Christ. Friday tells of the “god” they worshiped
where he came from and Robinson teaches him as well as he can. Friday asks some

surprisingly deep questions relating to therelationship of God, Satan, and mankind.

Though Robinson is stumped momentarily by the knowledge thirsty man’s questions

he manages a God inspired answer. Through Robinson’s guidance Friday becomes a

God fearing Christian and becomes Crusoe’s Spiritual pupil. Over the time they

spend together Robinson read to him from the scriptures and taught the meanings

of them to his man.

Chapter 13

Robinson and Friday see a ship in the waters near their home. They watch

from afar and see that there are eleven men who have come ashore and that three

appear to be prisoners. The men severely beat the captives and almost seemed

ready to kill them right then. However, the men grow bored of their fun and spread

out to search the island. Robinson prepares for battle and goes to investigate and

finds that the crew of the ship has committed mutiny and has taken the captain of

the ship, his first mate, and a passenger prisoner. Robinson saves the men and

they are willing to bring back to England free of charge. So Robinson Crusoe

returned to England after being on the island twenty eight years, two months, and

sixteen days.

Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe is a man who can keep a level head in just about any

situation. He is able to come up with many creative ideas for making his life easier

despite the lack of proper materials or instruction. His knowledge of how to survive

in the wilderness is amazing and seems to have much ability to make the best of

any situation. He has an amazing perception of how the world and its creator

relate.
Robinson’s spirituality is a trait that all Christians should strive for. He was

not led to God through a man but by seeing and experiencing the divine protection

of God’s hand. Crusoe is able to understand when he has strayed from the Lord,

and is able to learn from his mistakes. He acknowledges that he is alive only

because it is the will of God and that he must follow God’s ultimate plan for his life

no matter what.

Robinson has acquired a deep respect for God’s creation through his being

required to be in constant contact with it. His shipwrecked state has taught him the

true meaning of humility before God. He takes life only when necessary and knows

that wasting what God has graciously given him could result in life-threatening or

even fatal consequences. His deep spiritual relationship with God is something that

Christians need to learn from.

Robinson Crusoeis a tale of the misfortunes of a man who is running from his

past. He finds the Lord and becomes a follower of Christ and sets the perfect

example for the Christians of today. This book is fine story for anyone who has

interest in a spiritual survival story.

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