Robinson Cursoe

A detailed Summary of Robinson Cursoe

Robinson Crusoe (Kreutznaer) was born in 1632. His father desperately wanted Robinson to work with the law but Robinson wanted to go to sea and see the world. This shows the character of Robinson as independent and stubborn when he then sets sail at the age of nineteen without his father's permission or his blessing. To Robinson's dismay the ship he set sail with sunk and though he was safe at a port he decided that he could not go home and face the ridicule of parents.Soon after this he set sail on another voyage but this time his ship was captured and plundered by a Turkish rover of Salee. He was forced to be the servant of the captain of that ship until he was conveniently aboard a ship with enough supplies to attempt an escape. He escaped with a boy named Xury and was later picked up by a Portuguese ship headed for Brazil. When Crusoe got to Brazil he immediately wanted to start a sugar plantation like some of the ones he had seen as he toured the countryside of Brazil. He started this plantation and it grew to large proportions, so large in fact that he and other plantation owners needed more slaves to help run it. Crusoe and other plantation owners decided to go on a voyage to Africa for slaves until the

Friday and Crusoe become the best of friends and when the cannibals come back for another feast the two surprise them with the shooting of muskets and they kill eighteen savages and save their prisoners that were to be eaten. One of these prisoners is Friday's father which makes for a great reunion and again shows the need for human compassion in one's life. The other is a Spanish man which is the first "white" man that Crusoe has seen in years and they all talk on whether the cannibals would come back. They come to a consensus that they would not be back for shear fear of the "thunder and lightening gods" as the Spaniard tells Crusoe of his shipmates that are still on the savage land praying for their lives. The Spaniard and Friday's father take a canoe to get the other Spaniards and take them to the island.

Before they arrive back the island gets another visitor and this time it is a British ship that had the captain been overthrown by mutiny earlier in the trip and they had stopped on the island to kill the captain, the first mate, as well as a passenger. Crusoe eying a chance to escape the island that had confined him more than half his life helps the captured captain and the other prisoners and then by force they take prisoner to all that were on the island. More came to the island from the ship wondering why their crew had not come back from the island and they were captured by Robinson and his "50 man army" with the men and the ability to take back the ship that is exactly what they did. They took over the ship killing the new captain of the mutiny. They got ready to leave the island but they did not trust some of their prisoners and they feared mutiny again from them so they gave these prisoners the choice of sta

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