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The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe was written by Daniel Defoe in 1719. Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer, and spy. He wrote more than 500 books and journals on various topics. His most famous piece is The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Robinson Crusoe faced all sorts of obstacles while being stranded on the island and also showed that he can overcome adversity by surviving out there on his own for such a long time. Crusoe set out to sea when he was only nineteen years old despite his family being against it. Especially his father because all his father wanted him to do was study law so he could have a better life for his self. You can compare that to the same sense of Adam and Eve in such a way that they didn’t obey God when He prohibited Adam from eating fruit from the forbidden tree. But once Eve was created she was tricked into eating fruit off of the tree which is when God told them what their consequences would be. When Crusoe disobeys his father he tells him that he would not have a good time and that he would is very upset with his decision. When Crusoe is on the ship there is a big storm that causes the near death of him and one of his friends. You could look at that as one of the many consequences he had from disobeying his father like Adam and Eve had when they disobeyed God. After their near death Crusoe’s friend decides not to go along with the sea travel but Crusoe chooses otherwise. After the first trip being successful he decides to plan another one. Once again there is a consequence. This time the ship was seized by pirates and Crusoe is enslaved in the town of Sallee. While enslaved he becomes a fisherman and becomes friends with one of the slaves, Xury. Out on a fishing expedition he and Xury break free and sail down the coast. Along the way a Portuguese captain picks them up. While on board Crusoe asks Xury permission to sell him to the captain. Surprisingly Xury didn’t have a problem with it. The Captain takes him to Brazil where he stays for twenty-eight years and establishes himself as a plantation owner and becomes quite successful. But he was somewhat greedy and wanted more slaves to work on his plantation to become even more wealthy. This leads him on another ship headed to West Africa and once again there is a consequence to his greediness. Crusoe is once again shipwrecked but this time he is the only survivor. While on the island he builds shelter and a cellar and tries to find food. He returns back to the ships remains twelve times to salvage whatever he could. He finds all sorts of things like powder, guns, and a little bit of food. He also finds some goats and that becomes his main food source for awhile. He builds a cross and writes the date of his arrival on it and makes a notch for everyday so he can keep track of time. He also discovers that there was a dry season and a wet season That helped him out tremendously with the crops that he had found on the island by helping him know when to plant crops and when not to plant crops. While on the island Crusoe becomes very sick and hallucinates that an angel visits. He realizes that God has delivered him from his earlier sins. He decides to make his relationship stronger with God at the point and realizes that with God all things are possible. He begins praying more and after this he feels more optimistic about being stranded on this island. He finds a parrot and trains it as a pet and also takes a goat as a pet. Crusoe decides to cut down a cedar tree to build a canoe from the trunk. After he is finished building the canoe he realizes he built it too far away from sea and cannot move it to the sea because it is too heavy. Finally he decides to build a smaller boat closer to the shore. Once he gets the boat in the water he decides to row around the island and almost dies when he is swept away by a current. On his way back to shore he hears his parrot calling his name and is once again thankful for being saved. He is alone on the island for several more years until one day he discovers a footprint on the beach. He finally decides it belonged to one of the cannibals from a different island. This terrifies him and he stays on the lookout to make sure none of the cannibals come on to the island. After he discovers the footprint he decides to build an underground cellar to store his goats at night and other sorts of material. Crusoe eventually makes a way to cook underground.
One night he hears gunshots so the next morning he decides to go see what had happened. He sees a shipwrecked on the shore. When he goes to investigate the ship he notices that it is empty. After a few days he realizes that the shore had human remains on it from the cannibals. This scares him even more than he already was. Later he sees thirty cannibals going back to shore with more victims. They have two victims. One is dead and the other is waiting to be slaughtered but eventually breaks free and runs. Crusoe finds him and decides to protect him. Since he was well-armed he kills most of the cannibals onshore. The victim thanks and decides to stay with Crusoe and help him around the island working on things like the shelter and the cellar and also to help find food and plant crops. Crusoe decides to name the victim Friday since that was the day he was saved. Crusoe teaches Friday some English and some Christian concepts. Since Crusoe taught him those things Friday in return tells him that the cannibals are divided into nations and only eat their foes. Crusoe becomes very upset when he learns of Fridays longing to return home. Although Friday does admit that he would rather die than lose Crusoe. Together they build a boat to visit the cannibals’ land. But before they even get a chance to leave they discover the arrival of twenty-one cannibals in canoes. And they have three victims. One is in European dress so Crusoe and Friday kill most of the cannibals and release the European. Friday then realizes that one of the other victims is his father and becomes delighted. All four of them return to where Crusoe has been staying to get some rest. Crusoe boards a ship to return home on December 19, 1686. When he arrives he learns that all of his family is deceased except for two sisters. His friend still had his money kept safe and later learns that his plantations have been highly profitable. Cautious of sea travel he decides to attempt to return to England by land but cannot due to bad weather and wild animals. When he returns he hears that the sale of his plantations has been completed and has a lot of money. He gives some of the money to his friend and his sisters and then decides to go back to Brazil. He revisits the island and finds that it is doing well.