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Robby Collins
Robinson Crusoe
Chapter 1
yearning for the sea due to his being untrained in a trade like his brothers. His
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
One day Robinson finds a distinct human footprint in the sand and is shocked
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
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
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
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