![]() ![]() This portion of the novel is dedicated to Crusoe's time alone on the island. ![]() On the voyage there he gets shipwrecked and is left as the only survivor on a deserted island. He does fairly well financially, but soon becomes involved in a venture to procure slaves from Africa. Picked up by a Portuguese sailing captain, Crusoe makes it to Brazil where he buys a sugar plantation. Here he befriends a young man named Xury, with whom he escapes from captivity. He struggles against the authority of both his father and God and decides to thumb his nose at both by going adventuring on the sea instead.Īfter sailing around for a while, he makes a bit of money in trade, but then is captured and made into a slave off the coast of Africa. Crusoe, who wants nothing more than to travel around in a ship, is definitely not into this idea. Part I: Before the Islandīefore landing on the island, Crusoe's father wants him to be a good, middle-class guy. Robinson Crusoe is a very long book, but the novel can, more or less, be broken down into three major movements. ![]()
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