Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe is a timely tale written by Daniel Defoe. The book is about a man named Robinson Crusoe goes on a timely adventure about seafaring voyages and being stranded on a deserted island where he finds the means of survival needed. With the overall theme being the thought of home changing and that your life can change no matter where you go or what you do. The author also made classics like Treasure Island and Castaways. Some of these books fair the same resemblance to this book.

This book was around the time of the beginning were Europeans colonizing Africa. Some of the places are noted in the book but are not vacant to the main scene. The place it really takes place is off the African coast on a deserted island. The beginning and end of the story (hard to explain without giving away the ending) take place in the country of England. Robinson Crusoe a fairly loved sailor gives his life of how he ends up going sailing and surfing the seas for adventure and turning to many points where he finds places to stop. He starts at the beginning of his life and carries on about when his friend prompts him to go with him on his father’s ship. Soon this starts the adventure of a young man, and soon he ends up going to places never before and bartering with other ships and sometimes being stranded in towns. In the middle of this explanation of his life before his treachery he notes that was once became a slave and soon after some years escaped. Soon after he gets on a boat to sail for new places to go with a bunch of other seaman and a captain, he soon finds himself on a deserted island shipwrecked and force to live without any sort of needs of tools. Fortunately he finds that the ship is landed between two rocks by the coast of the island. He soon gets back onto the boat to find any valuables that were not taken to the water because the boat had its front in the sea and the back of it still above the water. After taking all of these tools, provisions, and materials he soon builds a fort or so called a “habitation” to him and survives with learning new things about the island and expanding to making different things and searching new things about the island. He soon saves someone from savages that live from a living country by the island and names him Friday because of the day he saved him was Friday. After this he soon finds out that he has to fight to save himself from the savages and also learns something even more intriguing. Even though I have no textual evidence that I thought was intriguing I still feel that the thought of fighting and killing was weird to tell and wasn’t descriptive at all.

This book really gave a score on writing and really made me aw at how good the writing was. The writing can sometimes confuse people of modern life so thinking about it would be a great and fast read to people who are college students or some people who have high knowledge. Even though to me I read this in a week and to me it was pretty easy and I could still understand the book even though I couldn’t understand some things that he did or he didn’t do. I suggest that you read it and suggest you make someone read it to, and to me it doesn’t matter who. The main ideal of this book made me curious and I sort of wanted to read it when I got suggested this book. The main point that makes it a good read it that its fast to read, and who ever thinks they couldn’t read it after two chapters is wrong because it’s really easy and they should reread the book to get the main ideal of it before they soon drop it down. To me it also was very rewarding after I read it, because the ending and the looking back at the first page really made me feel happy I read it and you should feel the same way to. 

Book Review by Ben M.