Novel: Robinson Crusoe
Arthur: Daniel Defoe
Pages: 268
Year of publishing: Mar 2003
Crusoe leaves England setting sail from the Queens Dock in Hull on a sea voyage in September, 1651, against the wishes of his parents. After a tumultuous journey that sees his ship wrecked by a vicious storm, his lust for the sea remains so strong that he sets out to sea again. This journey too ends in disaster as the ship is taken over by Salé pirates and Crusoe becomes the slave of a Moor. He manages to escape with a boat and a boy named Xury, later Robin is befriended by the Captain of a Portuguese ship off the western coast of Africa. The ship is en route to Brazil. There with the help of the captain, Crusoe becomes owner of a plantation. Crusoe then finds that his plantation in Brazil is now worth a large amount of money. He eventually disposes of this plantation and is very wealthy, marries and settles down in a farm in Bedford and has children. However, he never loses his wunderlust and desire to return to the island on which he was castaway, worried as he is about the Spaniards and the mutineers living there.
After reading, I proclaim the importance of self-awareness. Crusoe's arrival on the island does not make him revert to a brute existence controlled by animal instincts, and, unlike animals, he remains conscious of himself at all times. We see that in his normal day-to-day activities, Crusoe keeps accounts of himself enthusiastically and in various ways. Crusoe feels the importance of staying aware of his situation at all times. We can also sense Crusoe's impulse toward self-awareness in the fact that he teaches his parrot to say the words, "Poor Robin Crusoe . . . Where have you been?" Crusoe teaches nature itself to voice his own self-awareness.
In the end, I want to sorry to teacher. I did take some words from the novel.
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