This work is one of the most popular in a number of English novels. It talks about the life of a sailor from York who spent 28 years on a desert island, where he ended up as a result of a shipwreck.

The theme of the work was based on the spiritual and intellectual development of a young guy who found himself in unusual living conditions. The main character has to learn to live again, make the necessary items, get food and take care of himself.

1. Since childhood, Robinson Crusoe dreamed of connecting his life with sea voyages, but his parents were against such a hobby for their son. But despite this, when Robinson turned 18, he took his friend and his father’s ship and they went to London.

2. Already from the first day of sailing, trouble befalls the ship; it gets caught in a storm. The main character, frightened, promises never to go to sea again and to always be on land, but as soon as the storm calmed down, Robinson forgot all his promises and gets drunk. As a result, the young crew is again overtaken by a storm and the ship sinks. Robinson is ashamed to return home and decides on new adventures.

3. Arriving in London, Crusoe met a captain who wants to take the guy with him to Guinea. Soon the old captain died, but the heroes continue their journey. So, while sailing near Africa, the ship is captured by the Turks.

Robinson Crusoe is taken prisoner for three years, after which he manages to escape by deception, taking with him the boy Xuri. Together they swim to the shore, where the roar of animals is heard; during the day they go ashore to find fresh water and also to hunt. Crusoe explores the island in hopes of finding signs of life.

4. The heroes find savages with whom they manage to make friends, so they fill the supplies of what they need. They gave the leopard to the savages as a token of gratitude. After spending some time on the island, the heroes are taken away by a Portuguese ship.

5. Robinson Crusoe lives in Brazil and grows sugar cane. There he makes new friends, to whom he tells about his travels. After some time, Robinson is offered another trip in order to obtain gold dust. And thus the team sets off from the shores of Brazil. The ship lasted 12 days during the voyage, after which it fell into a storm and sank. The crew seeks salvation on a boat, but they still go down. Only Robinson Crusoe managed to get out alive. He is glad to be saved, but still sad for his dead comrades. Crusoe spends his first night in a tree. and is engaged

6. Waking up, Robinson saw that the ship had washed much closer to the shore. The hero goes to explore the ship to find supplies of food, water and rum. To transport the things he found, Robinson builds a raft. Soon the hero realizes that he is on an island; in the distance he sees several more islands and reefs. It takes several days to transport things and build a tent. Crusoe managed to translate almost everything that was on the ship, after which a storm arose, which carried the remains of the ship to the bottom. he ended up on the island

7. Robinson Crusoe devotes the next two weeks to sorting out supplies of food and gunpowder, and then hiding them in the crevices of the mountains.

8. Robinson came up with his own calendar; a dog and two cats from the ship became his friends. He keeps a diary and writes down what happens to him and what surrounds him. All this time, the hero waits for help to come for him and therefore often falls into despair. So a year and a half passes on the island, Crusoe practically no longer expects the ship to come, so he decides to equip his place of residence as best as possible.

9. Thanks to the diary, the reader learns that the hero managed to make a shovel and dig a cellar. Crusoe hunts goats and also tames a wounded kid, and he also catches wild pigeons for food. One day he finds ears of barley and rice, which he takes for sowing. And only after four years of life, he begins to use grains as food.

10. An earthquake hits the island. Crusoe begins to get sick, he is tormented by a fever, which he treats with tobacco tincture. Soon Crusoe explores the island more carefully and finds new fruits and berries. In the depths of the island there is clean water, and so the hero establishes a dacha. In August, Robinson dries the grapes, and in the period August-October the island experiences heavy rains.

11. During heavy rains, Robinson is engaged in weaving baskets. He makes the transition to the opposite side islands, and it turned out that living conditions there are much better.

12. Robinson continues to grow barley and rice and to scare away the birds, Robinson uses the corpses of their comrades.

13. Robinson tames a parrot and teaches him to talk, as well as learn how to make dishes from clay. For some time he learned to bake bread.

14. The hero devotes the fourth year of his stay on the island to building a boat. He also hunts animals for their skins so he can sew new clothes. To protect himself from the sun's rays, Crusoe makes an umbrella.

15. It took about two years to build the boat; with its help it was possible to travel around the island. During all this time, the hero has become accustomed to the island and it already seems like home to him. Soon he managed to create a smoking pipe.

16. It was the eleventh year of Robinson’s stay on the island, by which time his supplies of gunpowder were running out. Crusoe tames goats so as not to be left without meat supplies. Soon his herd becomes larger and larger, thanks to this main character no longer lacks meat food.

17. One day Robinson Crusoe found someone’s print on the shore, it was clearly a person. This discovery frightens the hero, after which Robinson cannot sleep peacefully and leave his hideout. After sitting in the hut for several days, Crusoe finally went out to milk the goats and realized that the traces found were his. But carefully examining the size of the print, I realized that it was still the trace of an alien.

18. Two years have passed since Robinson Crusoe found traces on the island. One day he explored the west of the island and found a shore with human bones. After such a discovery, Crusoe does not want to explore the island anymore and is on his part, busy with home improvement.

19. Twenty-four years have passed since the main character has been on the island. And the hero notices that an unknown ship has crashed not far from the island.

20. Robinson Crusoe failed to understand whether someone from the destroyed ship survived or not. On the shore he found the body of a cabin boy, and on the ship a dog and some things.

21. Robinson Crusoe finds himself a new friend, calls him Friday, since on that day he was saved. Now the main character sews clothes and teaches Friday, thanks to this Crusoe feels less lonely and unhappy.

22. Robinson teaches Friday to eat animal meat, teaches him to eat boiled food. The savage, in turn, gets used to Robinson, tries in every possible way to help him and tells him about the island that is nearby.

23. Robinson and Friday make a new boat to leave the island, adding a rudder and sails to it.

24. The main characters are attacked by savages, but are repulsed. Among the savages captured was a Spaniard, and also Friday's father.

25. The Spaniard helps Robinson build a ship.

26. Escape from the island is delayed due to low tide.

27. Armed people are making their way onto the island after their missing comrades. But Friday and his assistants cope with some of the attackers.

Don Juan was the most terrible of all sinners combined. Since this man did not violate an earthly law, but violated a moral, heavenly law. He trampled on the most pure, tender and innocent

Summary of the fable “The Pig under the Oak Tree” by Krylov

The pig, under a huge oak tree that was hundreds of years old, ate plenty of acorns. After such a good and satisfying lunch, she fell asleep, right under the same tree.

Summary Aleksin My brother plays the clarinet

The diary, of course, conveys Zhenya’s childish spontaneity. She herself cannot impress others with anything, and she does not try. She gets straight C grades, because for the Sister of a great musician, grades are nonsense. Why try? After all, she has a brilliant brother

Summary of Pushkin Snowstorm

In one of the Russian provinces, a good and hospitable gentleman Gavrila Gavrilovich lived on his estate with his wife and seventeen-year-old daughter Masha. Masha was considered a rich heiress in the area, and contenders for her hand

Robinson was the third son in the family, a darling, he was not prepared for any craft, and from childhood his head was filled with “all sorts of nonsense” - mainly dreams of sea ​​travel. His eldest brother died in Flanders fighting the Spaniards, his middle brother went missing, and therefore at home they don’t want to hear about letting the last son go to sea. The father, “a sedate and intelligent man,” tearfully begs him to strive for a modest existence, extolling in every way the “average state” that protects a sane person from the evil vicissitudes of fate. His father's admonitions only temporarily reason with the eighteen-year-old teenager. The intractable son’s attempt to enlist his mother’s support was also unsuccessful, and for almost a year he tore at his parents’ hearts, until on September 1, 1651, he sailed from Hull to London, tempted by free travel (the captain was the father of his friend).

Already the first day at sea became a harbinger of future trials. The raging storm awakens repentance in the disobedient soul, which, however, subsided with the bad weather and was finally dispelled by drinking, “as usual among sailors.” A week later, in the Yarmouth roadstead, a new, much more ferocious storm hits. The experience of the crew, selflessly saving the ship, does not help: the ship is sinking, the sailors are picked up by a boat from a neighboring boat. On the shore, Robinson again experiences a fleeting temptation to heed a harsh lesson and return to his parental home, but “evil fate” keeps him on his chosen disastrous path. In London, he meets the captain of a ship preparing to sail to Guinea, and decides to sail with him - fortunately it will not cost him anything, he will be the captain’s “companion and friend.” How the late, experienced Robinson will reproach himself for this calculated carelessness of his! If he had hired himself as a simple sailor, he would have learned the duties and work of a sailor, but as it is, he is just a merchant making a successful return on his forty pounds. But he acquires some kind of nautical knowledge: the captain willingly works with him, passing the time. Upon returning to England, the captain soon dies, and Robinson independently goes to Guinea.

It was an unsuccessful expedition: their ship is captured by a Turkish corsair, and young Robinson, as if in fulfillment of his father’s gloomy prophecies, goes through a difficult period of trials, turning from a merchant into a “pathetic slave,” the captain of a robber ship. The owner one day relaxes his supervision, sends the prisoner with the Moor and the boy Xuri to fish for the table, and, having sailed far from the shore, Robinson throws the Moor overboard and persuades Xuri to escape. He is well prepared: in the boat there is a supply of crackers and fresh water, tools, guns and gunpowder. On the way, the fugitives shoot down living creatures on the shore, even kill a lion and a leopard; the peace-loving natives supply them with water and food. Finally they are picked up by an oncoming Portuguese ship. Condescending to the plight of the rescued man, Kalitan undertakes to take Robinson to Brazil for free (they are sailing there); Moreover, he buys his longboat and “faithful Xuri,” promising in ten years (“if he accepts Christianity”) to return the boy’s freedom.

In Brazil, he settles down thoroughly and, it seems, for a long time: he receives Brazilian citizenship, buys land for tobacco and sugar cane plantations, works hard on it, belatedly regretting that Xuri is not nearby (how an extra pair of hands would have helped!). The planter neighbors are friendly to him and willingly help him; he manages to get the necessary goods, agricultural tools and household utensils from England, where he left money with the widow of his first captain. Here he should calm down and continue his profitable business, but the “passion for wandering” and, most importantly, the “desire to get rich sooner than circumstances allowed” prompt Robinson to sharply break his established way of life.

It all started with the fact that the plantations required workers, and slave labor was expensive, since the delivery of blacks from Africa was fraught with the dangers of a sea crossing and was also complicated by legal obstacles (for example, the English parliament would allow the trade in slaves to private individuals only in 1698). ). Having heard Robinson's stories about his trips to the shores of Guinea, the plantation neighbors decide to equip a ship and secretly bring slaves to Brazil, dividing them here among themselves. Robinson is invited to participate as a ship's clerk, responsible for the purchase of blacks in Guinea, and he himself will not invest any money in the expedition, but will receive slaves on an equal basis with everyone else, and even in his absence, his companions will oversee his plantations and look after his interests. Of course he's tempted favorable conditions, habitually (and not very convincingly) cursing “vagrant tendencies.” What “inclinations” if he thoroughly and intelligently, observing all the formalities, disposes of the property he leaves behind?

Never before had fate warned him so clearly: he set sail on September 1, 1659, that is, to the day eight years after escaping from parents' house. In the second week of the voyage, a fierce squall hit, and for twelve days they were torn by the “fury of the elements.” The ship sprang a leak, needed repairs, the crew lost three sailors (there were seventeen people in total on the ship), and there was no longer a way to Africa - they would rather get to land. A second storm breaks out, they are carried far from the trade routes, and then, in sight of land, the ship runs aground, and on the only remaining boat the crew “surrenders to the will of the raging waves.” A huge shaft “the size of a mountain” capsizes the boat, and Robinson, exhausted and miraculously not killed by the overtaking waves, gets out onto land.

Alas, he alone escaped, as evidenced by three hats, a cap and two unpaired shoes thrown ashore. The ecstatic joy is replaced by sorrow for the dead comrades, the pangs of hunger and fear of wild animals. He spends the first night on a tree. By morning, the tide has driven their ship close to the shore, and Robinson swims to it. He builds a raft from spare masts and loads it with “everything necessary for life”: food supplies, clothes, carpentry tools, guns and pistols, shot and gunpowder, sabers, saws, ax and hammer. With incredible difficulty, at the risk of capsizing every minute, he brings the raft into a calm bay and sets off to find a place to live. From the top of the hill, Robinson understands his “bitter fate”: this is an island and, by all indications, uninhabited. Protected on all sides by chests and boxes, he spends the second night on the island, and in the morning he swims to the ship again, hurrying to take what he can before the first storm breaks him into pieces. On this trip, Robinson took many useful things from the ship - again guns and gunpowder, clothes, a sail, mattresses and pillows, iron crowbars, nails, a screwdriver and a sharpener. He builds a tent on the shore, carries food supplies and gunpowder into it from the sun and rain, and makes a bed for himself. That same night a storm broke out, and the next morning there was nothing left of the ship.

Robinson's first concern is the arrangement of reliable, safe housing, and most importantly - in view of the sea, from where only salvation can be expected. On the slope of a hill, he finds a flat clearing and on it, against a small depression in the rock, he decides to pitch a tent, fencing it with a palisade of strong trunks driven into the ground. It was possible to enter the “fortress” only by a ladder. He expanded the hole in the rock - it turned out to be a cave, he uses it as a cellar. This work took many days. He is quickly gaining experience. In the midst of construction work, rain poured down, lightning flashed, and Robinson’s first thought: gunpowder! It was not the fear of death that frightened him, but the possibility of losing gunpowder at once, and for two weeks he poured it into bags and boxes and hid it in different places (at least a hundred). At the same time, he now knows how much gunpowder he has: two hundred and forty pounds. Without numbers (money, goods, cargo) Robinson is no longer Robinson.

Although Robinson is lonely, he hopes for the future and does not want to get lost in time, which is why the first concern of this life-builder is the construction of a calendar - this is a large pillar on which he makes a notch every day. The first date there is September 30, 1659. From now on, each of his days is named and taken into account, and for the reader, especially the one of that time, the reflection of a great story falls on the works and days of Robinson. During his absence, many events will happen in England; in London there will be a “great fire” (1666), and the revived urban planning will change the appearance of the capital beyond recognition; during this time Milton and Spinoza will die; Charles II will issue a "Habeas Corpus Act" - a law on the inviolability of the person. And in Russia, which, as it turns out, will also be not indifferent to the fate of Robinson, at this time Avvakum is burned, Razin is executed, Sophia becomes regent under Ivan V and Peter I. These distant lightning flickers over a man firing a clay pot.

Among the “not particularly valuable” things taken from the ship (remember “a bunch of gold”) were ink, feathers, paper, “three very good Bibles,” astronomical instruments, telescopes. Now that his life is getting better (by the way, three cats and a dog live with him, also from the ship, and then a moderately talkative parrot will be added), now is the time to comprehend what is happening, and until the ink and paper run out, Robinson keeps a diary in order to “ to ease your soul at least a little.” This is a kind of ledger of “evil” and “good”: In the left column - thrown onto a desert island without hope of deliverance; on the right - he is alive, and all his comrades drowned. In his diary, he describes in detail his activities, makes observations - both remarkable (regarding barley and rice sprouts) and everyday ones (“It rained.” “It rained again all day”). An earthquake forces Robinson to think about a new place to live - it is not safe under the mountain. Meanwhile, a shipwrecked ship washes up on the island, and Robinson unexpectedly receives building material, tools. During these same days, he fell ill with a fever, and in his feverish delirium he dreamed of a man “engulfed in flames” who threatened him with death because he “did not repent.” Lamenting his fatal errors, Robinson for the first time “in many years” says a prayer of repentance, reads the Bible - and receives treatment to the best of his ability. Rum infused with tobacco will wake him up, after which he sleeps for two nights. Accordingly, one day fell out of his calendar. Having recovered, Robinson finally explores the island where he has lived for more than ten months. In the flat part, among unknown plants, he meets old acquaintances - melon and grapes; grapes especially please him; he will dry the berries in the sun, and in the off-season raisins will strengthen his strength. And the island is rich in wildlife - hares (very tasteless), foxes, turtles (these, on the contrary, pleasantly diversify its table) and even penguins, which cause bewilderment in these latitudes. He looks at all these heavenly beauties with his master's eye - he has no one to share them with. And he decides to build a hut here, fortify it well and live for several days at a “dacha” (that’s his word), spending most of his time “on the old ashes” near the sea, from where liberation can come.

Working continuously, Robinson, for the second and third year, does not give himself any relief. Here is his day: “In the foreground were religious duties and the reading of the Holy Scriptures. The second of the daily tasks was hunting. The third was the sorting, drying and cooking of killed or caught game.” Then there is also the care of the crops, and then the harvest; and, of course, caring for livestock; not counting housework (making a shovel, hanging a shelf in the cellar), which takes a lot of time and effort due to a lack of tools and inexperience. Robinson has the right to be proud of himself: “With patience and labor, I completed all the work that I was forced to do by circumstances.” Just kidding, he will bake bread without salt, yeast or a suitable oven.

His cherished dream remains to build a boat and get to the mainland. He doesn’t even think about who or what he will meet there; the main thing is to escape from captivity. Driven by impatience, without thinking about how to get the boat from the forest to the water, Robinson huge tree and for several months he carves a pie out of it. When she is finally ready, he never manages to launch her. He endures failure stoically; Robinson became wiser and more self-possessed; he learned to balance “evil” and “good.” He wisely uses the resulting leisure time to update his worn-out wardrobe: he builds himself a fur suit (pants and jacket), sews a hat and even makes an umbrella. Another five years pass in daily work, marked by the fact that he finally built a boat, launched it into the water and equipped it with a sail. You can't get to the distant land on it, but you can go around the island. The current carries him out to the open sea, and with great difficulty he returns to the shore not far from the “dacha”. Having suffered through fear, he will lose the desire for sea walks for a long time. This year, Robinson improves in pottery and basket weaving (stocks are growing), and most importantly, he gives himself a royal gift - a pipe! There is an abyss of tobacco on the island.

His measured existence, filled with work and useful leisure, suddenly bursts like bubble. During one of his walks, Robinson sees a bare foot print in the sand. Scared to death, he returns to the “fortress” and sits there for three days, puzzling over an incomprehensible riddle: whose trace? Most likely these are savages from the mainland. Fear settles in his soul: what if he is discovered? The savages could eat him (he had heard of such a thing), they could destroy the crops and disperse the herd. Having started to go out little by little, he takes safety measures: he strengthens the “fortress” and arranges a new (distant) pen for the goats. Among these troubles, he again comes across human traces, and then sees the remains of a cannibal feast. It looks like guests have visited the island again. Horror possesses him for the entire two years that he remains incessantly on his part of the island (where the “fortress” and “dacha”), living “always on the alert.” But gradually life returns to its “previous calm channel,” although he continues to make bloodthirsty plans to drive the savages away from the island. His ardor is cooled by two considerations: 1) these are tribal feuds, the savages personally did nothing wrong to him; 2) why are they worse than the Spaniards, who flooded South America with blood? These conciliatory thoughts are not allowed to strengthen by a new visit to the savages (it is the twenty-third anniversary of his stay on the island), who landed this time on “his” side of the island. Having celebrated a terrible funeral feast, the savages sail away, and Robinson is still afraid to look towards the sea for a long time.

And the same sea beckons him with the hope of liberation. On a stormy night, he hears a cannon shot - some ship is giving a distress signal. All night he burns a huge fire, and in the morning he sees in the distance the skeleton of a ship crashed on the reefs. Longing for loneliness, Robinson prays to heaven that “at least one” of the crew will be saved, but “evil fate,” as if in mockery, throws the cabin boy’s corpse ashore. And there wasn’t a single living soul on the ship. The meager “boot” from the ship does not upset him very much; he stands firmly on his feet, fully providing for himself, and only gunpowder, shirts, linen - and, according to old memory, money - make him happy. He is haunted by the thought of escaping to the mainland, and since this is impossible to do alone, Robinson dreams of saving a savage destined “for slaughter” for help, “to acquire a servant, or maybe a comrade or assistant.” For a year and a half he has been making the most ingenious plans, but, as usual, everything falls through. And only after some time his dream comes true.

Robinson's life is filled with new and pleasant worries. Friday, as he called the rescued man, turned out to be a capable student, a faithful and kind comrade. Robinson lays the basis of his education on three words: “master” (meaning himself), “yes” and “no”. He eradicates bad savage habits, teaching Friday to eat broth and wear clothes, and also to “know the true God” (before this, Friday worshiped “an old man named Bunamuki who lives high”). Mastering the English language, Friday says that on the mainland his fellow tribesmen live with seventeen Spaniards who escaped from the lost ship. Robinson decides to build a new pirogue and, together with Friday, rescue the prisoners. The new arrival of savages disrupts their plans. This time the cannibals bring a Spaniard and an old man, who turns out to be Friday's father. Robinson and Friday, who are no worse at handling a gun than their master, free them. The idea of ​​everyone getting together on the island, building a reliable ship and trying their luck at sea is something that the Spaniard has to offer. In the meantime, a new plot is being sown, goats are being caught - a considerable replenishment is expected. Having taken an oath from the Spaniard not to surrender him to the Inquisition, Robinson sends him with Friday's father to the mainland. And on the eighth day new guests arrive on the island. A mutinous crew from an English ship brings the captain, mate and passenger to massacre. Robinson can't miss this chance. Taking advantage of the fact that he knows every path here, he frees the captain and his fellow sufferers, and the five of them deal with the villains. The only condition that Robinson sets is to deliver him and Friday to England. The riot is pacified, two notorious scoundrels hang on the yardarm, three more are left on the island, humanely provided with everything necessary; but more valuable than provisions, tools and weapons is the experience of survival itself, which Robinson shares with the new settlers, there will be five of them in total - two more will escape from the ship, not really trusting the captain’s forgiveness.

Robinson's twenty-eight-year odyssey ended: on June 11, 1686, he returned to England. His parents died long ago, but a good friend, the widow of his first captain, is still alive. In Lisbon, he learns that all these years his Brazilian plantation was managed by an official from the treasury, and since it now turns out that he is alive, all income for this period is returned to him.

A wealthy man, he takes two nephews into his care, and trains the second to become a sailor. Finally, Robinson marries (he is sixty-one years old) “not without profit and quite successfully in all respects.” He has two sons and a daughter.

Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe was first published in April 1719. The work gave rise to the development of the classic English novel and made the pseudo-documentary genre of fiction popular.

The plot of The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is based on real story boatswain Alexander Selkir, who lived on a desert island for four years. Defoe rewrote the book many times, giving it its final version philosophical meaning– Robinson's story became an allegorical image human life as such.

Main characters

Robinson Crusoe- the main character of the work, delirious about sea adventures. Spent 28 years on a desert island.

Friday- a savage whom Robinson saved. Crusoe taught him English and took him with him.

Other characters

Ship captain- Robinson saved him from captivity and helped him return the ship, for which the captain took Crusoe home.

Xuri- a boy, a prisoner of Turkish robbers, with whom Robinson fled from the pirates.

Chapter 1

From early childhood, Robinson loved the sea more than anything in the world and dreamed of long voyages. The boy's parents did not like this very much, as they wanted a calmer happy life for my son. His father wanted him to become an important official.

However, the thirst for adventure was stronger, so on September 1, 1651, Robinson, who was eighteen years old at that time, without asking permission from his parents, and a friend boarded a ship departing from Hull to London.

Chapter 2

On the very first day the ship fell into strong storm. Robinson felt bad and scared from the strong motion. He swore a thousand times that if everything worked out, he would return to his father and never swim in the sea again. However, the ensuing calm and a glass of punch helped Robinson quickly forget about all the “good intentions.”

The sailors were confident in the reliability of their ship, so they spent all their days having fun. On the ninth day of the voyage, a terrible storm broke out in the morning and the ship began to leak. A passing ship threw a boat at them and by evening they managed to escape. Robinson was ashamed to return home, so he decided to set sail again.

Chapter 3

In London, Robinson met a respectable elderly captain. A new acquaintance invited Crusoe to go with him to Guinea. During the journey, the captain taught Robinson shipbuilding, which was very useful for the hero in the future. In Guinea, Crusoe managed to profitably exchange the trinkets he brought for gold sand.

After the captain's death, Robinson went to Africa again. This time the journey was less successful; on the way, their ship was attacked by pirates - Turks from Saleh. Robinson was captured by the captain of a robber ship, where he remained for almost three years. Finally, he had a chance to escape - the robber sent Crusoe, the boy Xuri and the Moor to fish in the sea. Robinson took with him everything he needed for a long voyage and on the way threw the Moor into the sea.

Robinson was on his way to Cape Verde, hoping to meet a European ship.

Chapter 4

After many days of sailing, Robinson had to go ashore and ask the savages for food. The man thanked them by killing a leopard with a gun. The savages gave him the skin of the animal.

Soon the travelers met a Portuguese ship. On it Robinson reached Brazil.

Chapter 5

The captain of the Portuguese ship kept Xuri with him, promising to make him a sailor. Robinson lived in Brazil for four years, farming sugar cane and producing sugar. Somehow, familiar merchants suggested that Robinson travel to Guinea again.

“In an evil hour” - on September 1, 1659, he stepped onto the deck of the ship. “It was the same day on which eight years ago I ran away from my father’s house and so madly ruined my youth.”

On the twelfth day, a strong squall hit the ship. The bad weather lasted twelve days, their ship sailed wherever the waves drove it. When the ship ran aground, the sailors had to transfer to a boat. However, four miles later, an “angry wave” capsized their ship.

Robinson was washed ashore by a wave. He was the only one of the crew to survive. The hero spent the night on a tall tree.

Chapter 6

In the morning Robinson saw that their ship had washed closer to the shore. Using spare masts, topmasts and yards, the hero made a raft, on which he transported planks, chests, food supplies, a box of carpentry tools, weapons, gunpowder and other necessary things to the shore.

Returning to land, Robinson realized that he was on a desert island. He built himself a tent from sails and poles, surrounding it with empty boxes and chests for protection from wild animals. Every day Robinson swam to the ship, taking things that he might need. At first Crusoe wanted to throw away the money he found, but then, after thinking about it, he left it. After Robinson visited the ship for the twelfth time, a storm carried the ship out to sea.

Soon Crusoe found convenient place for housing - in a small smooth clearing on the slope of a high hill. Here the hero pitched a tent, surrounding it with a fence of high stakes, which could only be overcome with the help of a ladder.

Chapter 7

Behind the tent, Robinson dug a cave in the hill that served as his cellar. Once, during a severe thunderstorm, the hero was afraid that one lightning strike could destroy all his gunpowder and after that he put it into different bags and stored it separately. Robinson discovers that there are goats on the island and begins to hunt them.

Chapter 8

In order not to lose track of time, Crusoe created a simulated calendar - he hammered it into the sand big log, on which he marked the days with notches. Along with his things, the hero transported two cats and a dog that lived with him from the ship.

Among other things, Robinson found ink and paper and took notes for some time. “At times despair attacked me, I experienced mortal melancholy, in order to overcome these bitter feelings, I took up a pen and tried to prove to myself that there was still a lot of good in my plight.”

Over time, Crusoe dug a back door in the hill and made furniture for himself.

Chapter 9

From September 30, 1659, Robinson kept a diary, describing everything that happened to him on the island after the shipwreck, his fears and experiences.

To dig the cellar, the hero made a shovel from “iron” wood. One day there was a collapse in his “cellar”, and Robinson began to firmly strengthen the walls and ceiling of the recess.

Soon Crusoe managed to tame the kid. While wandering around the island, the hero discovered wild pigeons. He tried to tame them, but as soon as the chicks' wings became stronger, they flew away. Robinson made a lamp from goat fat, which, unfortunately, burned very dimly.

After the rains, Crusoe discovered seedlings of barley and rice (shaking bird food onto the ground, he thought that all the grains had been eaten by rats). The hero carefully collected the harvest, deciding to leave it for sowing. Only in the fourth year could he afford to separate some of the grain for food.

After strong earthquake Robinson understands that he needs to find another place to live, away from the cliff.

Chapter 10

The waves washed the wreckage of the ship onto the island, and Robinson gained access to its hold. On the shore, the hero discovered a large turtle, whose meat replenished his diet.

With the onset of the rains, Crusoe fell ill and developed a severe fever. I was able to recover with tobacco tincture and rum.

While exploring the island, the hero finds sugar cane, melons, wild lemons, and grapes. He dried the latter in the sun to prepare raisins for future use. In a blooming green valley, Robinson arranges a second home for himself - a “dacha in the forest”. Soon one of the cats brought three kittens.

Robinson learned to accurately divide the seasons into rainy and dry. During rainy periods he tried to stay at home.

Chapter 11

During one of the rainy periods, Robinson learned to weave baskets, which he really missed. Crusoe decided to explore the entire island and discovered a strip of land on the horizon. He realized that this was a part of South America where wild cannibals probably lived and was glad that he was on a desert island. Along the way, Crusoe caught a young parrot, which he later taught to speak some words. There were many turtles and birds on the island, even penguins were found here.

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Robinson got hold of good pottery clay, from which he made dishes and dried them in the sun. Once the hero discovered that pots could be fired in a fire - this became a pleasant discovery for him, since now he could store water in the pot and cook food in it.

To bake the bread, Robinson made a wooden mortar and a makeshift oven out of clay tablets. Thus passed his third year on the island.

Chapter 14

All this time, Robinson was haunted by thoughts about the land he saw from the shore. The hero decides to repair the boat, which was thrown ashore during the shipwreck. The updated boat sank to the bottom, but he could not launch it. Then Robinson set about making a pirogue from a cedar tree trunk. He managed to make an excellent boat, however, just like the boat, he could not lower it to the water.

The fourth year of Crusoe's stay on the island has ended. His ink had run out and his clothes were worn out. Robinson sewed three jackets from sailor peacoats, a hat, jacket and pants from the skins of killed animals, and made an umbrella from the sun and rain.

Chapter 15

Robinson built small boat to go around the island by sea. Rounding the underwater rocks, Crusoe swam far from the shore and fell into the current of the sea, which carried him further and further. However, soon the current weakened and Robinson managed to return to the island, which he was infinitely happy about.

Chapter 16

In the eleventh year of Robinson's stay on the island, his supplies of gunpowder began to deplete. Not wanting to give up meat, the hero decided to come up with a way to catch wild goats alive. With the help of "wolf pits" Crusoe managed to catch an old goat and three kids. Since then he started raising goats.

“I lived like a real king, not needing anything; Next to me there was always a whole staff of courtiers [tamed animals] devoted to me - there were not only people.”

Chapter 17

Once Robinson discovered a human footprint on the shore. “In terrible anxiety, not feeling the ground under my feet, I hurried home, to my fortress.” Crusoe hid at home and spent the whole night thinking about how a man ended up on the island. Calming himself, Robinson even began to think that it was his own trail. However, when he returned to the same place, he saw that the footprint was much larger than his foot.

In fear, Crusoe wanted to loose all the cattle and dig up both fields, but then he calmed down and changed his mind. Robinson realized that savages come to the island only sometimes, so it is important for him to simply not catch their eye. For additional security, Crusoe drove stakes into the gaps between the previously densely planted trees, thus creating a second wall around his home. The entire area for outer wall he planted it with willow-like trees. Two years later, a grove grew green around his house.

Chapter 18

Two years later, on the western part of the island, Robinson discovered that savages regularly sailed here and held cruel feasts, eating people. Fearing that he might be discovered, Crusoe tried not to shoot, began to light a fire with caution, and acquired charcoal, which produces almost no smoke when burning.

While searching for coal, Robinson found a vast grotto, which he made his new storeroom. “It was already the twenty-third year of my stay on the island.”

Chapter 19

One day in December, leaving the house at dawn, Robinson noticed the flames of a fire on the shore - the savages had staged a bloody feast. Watching the cannibals from a telescope, he saw that with the tide they sailed from the island.

Fifteen months later, a ship sailed near the island. Robinson burned a fire all night, but in the morning he discovered that the ship had been wrecked.

Chapter 20

Robinson took a boat to the wrecked ship, where he found a dog, gunpowder and some necessary things.

Crusoe lived for two more years “in complete contentment, without knowing hardship.” “But all these two years I was only thinking about how I could leave my island.” Robinson decided to save one of those whom the cannibals brought to the island as a sacrifice, so that the two of them could escape to freedom. However, the savages appeared again only a year and a half later.

Chapter 21

Six Indian pirogues landed on the island. The savages brought with them two prisoners. While they were busy with the first one, the second one started to run away. Three people were chasing the fugitive, Robinson shot two with a gun, and the third was killed by the fugitive himself with a saber. Crusoe beckoned the frightened fugitive to him.

Robinson took the savage to the grotto and fed him. “He was a handsome young man, tall, well-built, his arms and legs were muscular, strong and at the same time extremely graceful; he looked about twenty-six years old." The savage showed Robinson with all possible signs that from that day on he would serve him all his life.

Crusoe began to gradually teach him the right words. First of all, he said that he would call him Friday (in memory of the day on which he saved his life), taught him the words “yes” and “no”. The savage offered to eat his killed enemies, but Crusoe showed that he was terribly angry at this desire.

Friday became a real comrade for Robinson - “never has a single person had such a loving, such a faithful and devoted friend.”

Chapter 22

Robinson took Friday with him hunting as an assistant, teaching the savage to eat animal meat. Friday began helping Crusoe with the housework. When the savage learned the basics English language, he told Robinson about his tribe. The Indians, from whom he managed to escape, defeated Friday's native tribe.

Crusoe asked his friend about the surrounding lands and their inhabitants - the peoples who live on the neighboring islands. As it turns out, the neighboring land is the island of Trinidad, where wild Carib tribes live. The savage explained that the “white people” could be reached by a large boat, this gave Crusoe hope.

Chapter 23

Robinson taught Friday to shoot a gun. When the savage mastered English well, Crusoe shared his story with him.

Friday said that once a ship with “white people” crashed near their island. They were rescued by the natives and remained to live on the island, becoming “brothers” for the savages.

Crusoe begins to suspect Friday of wanting to escape from the island, but the native proves his loyalty to Robinson. The savage himself offers to help Crusoe return home. The men took a month to make a pirogue from a tree trunk. Crusoe placed a mast with a sail in the boat.

“The twenty-seventh year of my imprisonment in this prison has come.”

Chapter 24

After waiting out the rainy season, Robinson and Friday began to prepare for the upcoming voyage. One day, savages with more captives landed on the shore. Robinson and Friday dealt with the cannibals. The rescued prisoners turned out to be the Spaniard and Friday's father.

The men built a canvas tent especially for the weakened European and the savage’s father.

Chapter 25

The Spaniard said that the savages sheltered seventeen Spaniards, whose ship was wrecked on a neighboring island, but those rescued were in dire need. Robinson agrees with the Spaniard that his comrades will help him build a ship.

The men prepared all the necessary supplies for the "white people", and the Spaniard and Friday's father went after the Europeans. While Crusoe and Friday were waiting for guests, an English ship approached the island. The British on the boat moored to the shore, Crusoe counted eleven people, three of whom were prisoners.

Chapter 26

The robbers' boat ran aground with the tide, so the sailors went for a walk around the island. At this time Robinson was preparing his guns. At night, when the sailors fell asleep, Crusoe approached their captives. One of them, the captain of the ship, said that his crew rebelled and went over to the side of the “gang of scoundrels.” He and his two comrades barely convinced the robbers not to kill them, but to land them on deserted shore. Crusoe and Friday helped kill the instigators of the riot, and tied up the rest of the sailors.

Chapter 27

To capture the ship, the men broke through the bottom of the longboat and prepared for the next boat to meet the robbers. The pirates, seeing the hole in the ship and the fact that their comrades were missing, got scared and were going to return to the ship. Then Robinson came up with a trick - Friday and the captain's assistant lured eight pirates deep into the island. The two robbers, who remained waiting for their comrades, unconditionally surrendered. At night, the captain kills the boatswain who understands the rebellion. Five robbers surrender.

Chapter 28

Robinson orders to put the rebels in a dungeon and take the ship with the help of the sailors who sided with the captain. At night, the crew swam to the ship, and the sailors defeated the robbers on board. In the morning, the captain sincerely thanked Robinson for helping to return the ship.

By order of Crusoe, the rebels were untied and sent deep into the island. Robinson promised that they would be left with everything they needed to live on the island.

“As I later established from the ship’s log, my departure took place on December 19, 1686. Thus, I lived on the island for twenty-eight years, two months and nineteen days.”

Soon Robinson returned to his homeland. By that time, his parents had died, and his sisters with their children and other relatives met him at home. Everyone listened with great enthusiasm to Robinson's incredible story, which he told from morning until evening.

Conclusion

D. Defoe's novel “The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe” had a huge impact on world literature, laying the foundation for an entire literary genre - “Robinsonade” (adventure works describing the life of people in uninhabited lands). The novel became a real discovery in the culture of the Enlightenment. Defoe's book has been translated into many languages ​​and filmed more than twenty times. Proposed brief retelling"Robinson Crusoe" chapter by chapter will be useful for schoolchildren, as well as anyone who wants to get acquainted with the plot of the famous work.

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Everyone knows Daniel Defoe's novel about Robinson Crusoe. Even those who haven't read it remember the story about a young sailor who ends up on a desert island after a shipwreck. He has lived there for twenty-eight years.

Everyone knows such a writer as Daniel Defoe. "Robinson Crusoe" summary which makes me once again convinced of his genius - this is his most famous work.

For more than two hundred years, people have been reading novels. There are a lot of parodies of it and sequels. Economists build models of human existence based on this novel. What makes this book so popular? The story of Robinson will help answer this question.

Summary of "Robinson Crusoe" for a reader's diary

Robinson was the third son of his parents; he was not prepared for any profession. He always dreamed of the sea and travel. His older brother fought with the Spaniards and died. The middle brother has gone missing. Therefore, the parents did not want to let their youngest son go to sea.

The father tearfully asked Robinson to simply exist modestly. But these requests only temporarily pacified the 18-year-old guy. The son tries to gain the support of his mother, but this venture is unsuccessful. For another year he tries to ask his parents for time off, until in September 1651 he sails to London because of free passage (the captain was the father of his friend).

Robinson's sea adventures

Already on the first day a storm broke out at sea, Robinson repented in his soul for his disobedience. But this state was dispelled by drinking. A week later an even more severe storm arrived. The ship sank and the sailors were picked up by a boat from a neighboring ship. On the shore, Robinson wants to return to his parents, but “evil fate” keeps him on his chosen path. Summary of "Robinson Crusoe" for reader's diary shows what a difficult fate Robinson had to face.

In London, the hero met the captain of a ship going to Guinea, and is going to sail with him; he becomes the captain's friend. Robinson very soon regrets that he did not become a sailor, so he would have learned to be a sailor. But he gains some knowledge: the captain enjoys studying with Robinson, trying to pass the time. When the ship returns to die, Robinson himself sails to Guinea. This expedition turns out to be unsuccessful: their ship is captured by Turkish pirates, and our hero turns into a slave of the Turkish captain. He makes Robinson do everything homework, but doesn’t take it to sea. In this part, the novel “The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe,” a summary of which describes the entire life of the main character, shows the determination and leadership of a man.

The owner sent the prisoner to fish, and one day when they were on long distance from the shore, Robinson persuades the boy Xuri to escape. He prepared for this in advance, so the boat had crackers and fresh water, tools and weapons. On the road, the fugitives hunt for livestock; peaceful natives give them water and food. They are later picked up by a ship from Portugal. The captain promises to take Robinson to Brazil for free. He buys their boat and the boy Xuri, promising to return his freedom in a few years. Robinson agrees with this. The summary of “Robinson Crusoe” for the reader’s diary will further tell about the hero’s life in Brazil.

Life in Brazil

In Brazil, Robinson receives their citizenship and works on his own tobacco and sugar cane plantations. Neighbors on the plantations help him. Plantations needed workers, and slaves were expensive. After listening to Robinson's stories about his trips to Guinea, the planters decide to bring slaves to Brazil secretly on a ship and divide them among themselves. Robinson is offered to be a ship's clerk, responsible for the purchase of blacks in Guinea. “The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe”, a summary of this work further reveals the recklessness of the main character.

He agrees and sails from Brazil on September 1, 1659, 8 years after leaving his parental home. During the second week of the voyage, a severe storm began to buffet the ship. He runs aground, and the crew on the boat surrenders to fate. A large shaft overturns the boat and the miraculously saved Robinson ends up on land. A summary of "Robinson Crusoe" for the reader's diary further tells about Robinson's new home.

Miraculous Rescue - Desert Island

He alone is saved and grieves for his dead friends. The first night Robinson sleeps in a tree, afraid of wild animals. On the second day, the hero took many useful things from the ship (which washed closer to the shore) - weapons, nails, a screwdriver, a sharpener, pillows. On the shore he sets up a tent, carries food and gunpowder into it and makes a bed for himself. In total, he was on the ship 12 times, and always took something valuable from there - gear, crackers, rum, flour. The last time he saw a pile of gold and thought that in his condition they were not at all important, but he took them with him anyway. The novel “The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe”, a brief summary of its further parts will tell about the further

That night the storm left nothing of the ship. Now Robinson was awaiting the construction of a safe home overlooking the sea, from where he could wait for rescue.

On the hill he finds a flat clearing and pitches a tent on it, enclosing it with a fence of trunks driven into the ground. You could enter this house via a ladder. He built a cave in the rock and used it as a cellar. All the work took him a lot of time. But he quickly gained experience. Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe", a summary of this novel further talks about Robinson's adaptation to a new life.

Adaptation to a new life

Now he was faced with the task of surviving. But Robinson was alone, he was confronted by a world that did not know about his condition - the sea, the rains, a wild deserted island. To do this, he will have to master many professions and interact with environment. He took note of everything and learned. He learned to domesticate goats and make cheese. In addition to cattle breeding, Robinson took up farming when the grains of barley and rice, which he shook out of a bag, sprouted. The hero sowed a large field. Next, Robinson created a calendar in the form of a large pillar, on which he put a notch every day.

The first date on the pillar is September 30, 1659. From this moment on, his every day is taken into account, and the reader learns a lot. During Robinson's absence, the monarchy was restored in England, and Robinson returns to the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688, which brought William of Orange to the throne.

Robinson Crusoe's Diary, summary: continuation of the story

Among the not very necessary things that Robinson took from the ship were ink, paper, three Bibles. When his life improved (three cats and a dog from the ship still lived with him, then a parrot appeared), he started a diary to ease his soul . In his diary, Robinson describes all his affairs, observations regarding the harvest and weather.

The earthquake forces Robinson to think about new housing, since it is dangerous to stay under the mountain. The remains of a ship after a wreck float to the island, and Robinson finds tools and material for construction on it. The fever knocks him down, and he reads the Bible and heals himself as best he can. Rum infused with tobacco helps him recover.

When Robinson recovered, he explored the island, where he had been living for about ten months. Among the unknown plants, Robinson finds melon and grapes, and then makes raisins from the latter. There is also a lot of wildlife on the island: foxes, hares, turtles, and penguins. Robinson considers himself the owner of these beauties, because no one else lives here. He puts up a hut, strengthens it and lives there as if in a dacha.

Robinson works for two or three years without straightening his back. He writes all this down in his diary. This is how he recorded one of his days. In short, the day consisted of Robinson reading the Bible, hunting, then sorting, drying and cooking the caught game.

Robinson tended crops, harvested crops, looked after livestock, and made garden tools. All these activities took a lot of energy and time from him. With patience, he brought everything to completion. I even baked bread without an oven, without salt or yeast.

Building a boat and walking in the sea

Robinson did not stop dreaming of a boat and a trip to the mainland. He just wanted to escape from captivity. Robinson is down big tree and carves a small vessel out of it. But he never manages to get it into the water (since it was far in the forest). He endures failure with patience.

Robinson spends his leisure time updating his wardrobe: he sews himself a fur suit (jacket and trousers), a hat and an umbrella. Five years later, Robinson builds a boat and launches it into the water. Having got out to sea, he circles around the island. The current carries the boat into the open sea, and Robinson returns to the island with great difficulty. This is how Robinson Crusoe describes his adventures. The summary of this novel shows the loneliness of the hero and his hope for salvation.

Traces of savages in the sand

Because of fear, Robinson does not go to sea for a long time. He masters pottery, weaves baskets and makes a pipe. There is a lot of tobacco on the island. On one of his walks, a man sees a footprint in the sand. He gets very scared, returns home and doesn’t leave there for three days, wondering whose trail it is. The hero is afraid that these might be savages from the mainland. Robinson thinks that they can ruin the crops, disperse the livestock, and eat them themselves. When he leaves the “fortress”, he makes a new pen for the goats. The man again discovers traces of people and the remains of a cannibal feast. The guests were back on the island. For two years Robinson remains on one part of the island in his home. But then life returns to normal. A brief summary (“Robinson Crusoe”) will tell you about this in the next part of the article. Daniel Defoe describes all the hero's affairs in small details.

Rescue of Friday - a savage from nearby lands

One night a man hears a cannon shot - the ship gives a signal. Robinson burns a fire all night, and in the morning he sees fragments of the ship. Out of melancholy and loneliness, he prays that someone from the crew will be saved, but only the cabin boy’s corpse is carried ashore. There were no living people left on the ship. Robinson still wants to get to the mainland and wants to take some savage to help. For a year and a half he comes up with plans, but Robinson is frightened by cannibals. One time he manages to meet a savage whom he saves. He becomes his friend.

Robinson's life becomes more enjoyable. He teaches Friday (as he called the rescued savage) to eat broth and wear clothes. Friday turned out to be good and true friend. This is stated in the novel “The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe”, a summary of which can be read in one sitting.

Rescue from imprisonment and return to England

Guests will soon arrive on the island. A team of rebels on an English ship brings the captain, mate and passenger to massacre. Robinson frees the captain and his friends, and they pacify the riot. The only desire that Robinson voices to the captain is to deliver him and Friday to England. Robinson stayed on the island for 28 years and returned to England on June 11, 1686. His parents had long been dead, but the widow of his first captain was still alive. He learns that an official from the treasury took over his plantation, but all the income is returned to him. A man helps his two nephews, preparing them to become sailors. At 61, Robinson marries and has three children. This is how this amazing story ends.

INTRODUCTION

"Robinson Crusoe" (English Robinson Crusoe) is the hero of the novels of Daniel Defoe. We have known Robinson since childhood. They believe in Robinson, even knowing that it is a fiction, but they succumb, like an obsession, to the incredible authenticity of the story. In Defoe's time, it was enough to go to sea and then talk about it to force yourself to listen. But many adventures and journeys have disappeared without a trace from the memory of readers; no one except historians looks into them anymore. Meanwhile, the fascination and persuasiveness of Robinson's adventures have been preserved, although they were written by people who had not experienced any extraordinary adventures. Daniel Defoe hated swimming: he suffered from seasickness, and even in a boat on the river he felt ill.

Daniel Defoe was one of those enlightenment authors who, with their work, laid the foundations for many types, genre varieties and forms of the novel of the 19th and 20th centuries. There are, in fact, so few books equal to Robinson that it would even be natural to explain the fate of such a book by miracle or paradox and, finally, misunderstanding. Isn’t it a miracle that many people, starting with Swift, tried to expose Robinson, but people still believe in Robinson’s adventures, and they read this book. Defoe's book has remained a model of accessible and fascinating reading.

Of course, Robinson was and is read in different ways. Children read it as an adventure, but a whole philosophical doctrine was subtracted from the same Robinson. Every time, every age and every nation reads Robinson in its own way, but it always reads it. The book about Robinson, at the same time light and deep, contains life ordinary person, but at the same time something unprecedented.

Some will see in Robinson's adventures a guide to survival, some will begin to argue with the author whether Robinson should go crazy, like Atkinson from The Children of Captain Grant and The Mysterious Island, others will see in him the resilience of the human spirit, etc.

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is a brilliant book. The short concept of genius contains the source of the longevity of such books. It is impossible to fully explain their secret. Only such an omnipotent critic as time, which through its objective course reveals the meaning of masterpieces, can do this. Robinson's book will always be unread.

The purpose of the work is to study and analyze the poetics and features of D. Defoe's novel Life, the extraordinary and amazing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, a sailor from York.

CONTENTS AND FEATURES OF THE NOVEL "ROBINSON CRUSOE"

The full title of the first book is “The Life, Extraordinary and Amazing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, a sailor from York, who lived for 28 years all alone on an uninhabited island off the coast of America near the mouth of the Orinoco River, where he was thrown out by a shipwreck, during which the entire crew of the ship except he died, with an account of his unexpected release by pirates; written by himself."

In August 1719, Defoe released a sequel, “The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe,” and a year later, “The Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe,” but only the first book was included in the treasury of world literature, and it is with it that the new genre concept “Robinsonade” is associated.

This novel tells the story of a man whose dreams have always been directed towards the sea. Robinson's parents did not approve of his dream, but in the end Robinson Crusoe ran away from home and went to sea. On his first voyage he failed and his ship sank. The surviving crew members began to avoid Robinson as his next voyage failed.

Robinson Crusoe was captured by pirates and stayed with them for a long time. Having escaped, he sailed the sea for 12 days. On the way he met natives. Stumbling upon a ship, the good captain took him on deck.

Robinson Crusoe remained to live in Brazil. He began to own a sugar cane plantation. Robinson became rich and influential. He told his friends about his adventures. The rich became interested in his story about the natives he met while escaping from pirates. Since blacks at that time were the labor force, but they were very expensive. Having assembled the ship, they set off, but due to the unfortunate fate of Robinson Crusoe, they failed. Robinson ended up on the island.

He quickly settled in. He had three houses on the island. Two near the shore, to see if a ship sails past, and the other house in the center of the island, where grapes and lemons grew.

After staying on the island for 25 years, he noticed human footprints and bones on the northern shore of the island. A little later, on the same bank, he saw smoke from a fire; having climbed a hill, Robinson Crusoe saw through a telescope the savages and two prisoners. They had already eaten one, and the other was awaiting its fate. But suddenly the prisoner ran towards Crusoe’s house, and two savages ran after him. This made Robinson happy and he ran towards them. Robinson Crusoe saved the prisoner, naming him Friday. Friday became Robinson's roommate and employee.

Two years later, a boat with an English flag sailed to their island. There were three prisoners on board, they were pulled out of the boat and left on the shore, while others went to inspect the island. Crusoe and Friday approached the prisoners. Their captain said that his ship mutinied and the instigators of the riot decided to leave the captain, his assistant and the passenger on what they thought was an uninhabited island. Robinson and Friday caught them and tied them up, they surrendered. An hour later another boat arrived and they were also caught. Robinson Friday and several other prisoners took a boat to the ship. Having successfully captured it, they returned to the island. Since the instigators of the riot would have been executed in England, they decided to stay on the island, Robinson showed them his possessions and sailed to England. Crusoe's parents have long since died, but his plantation still remains. His mentors became rich. When they learned that Robinson Crusoe was alive, they were very happy. Crusoe received a significant amount of money by mail (Robinson was hesitant to return to Brazil). Robinson later sold his plantation, becoming rich. He got married and had three children. When his wife died, he wanted to return to the island and see how life was there. Everything flourished on the island. Robinson brought everything he needed there: several women, gunpowder, animals and more. He learned that the inhabitants of the island fought with the savages, winning and taking them prisoner. In total, Robinson Crusoe spent 28 years on the island.