Book Review on Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Soon he finds himself a slave on a ship, but against the odds he escapes and starts a sugar plantation in Brazil. He sets out to sea once again but this time he is going to Africa to get slaves for his plantation. On his way he meets some bad luck and his ship gets wrecked. Crusoe, being the only survivor swims, to a island and is stuck there for 15 years before he finds other human life. During the 15 years he builds a home and tries to survive as best as he can.

After this, Crusoe's friend decides to stop traveling by sea, but Robinson is persistent on sailing and decides to go on another ship to London which ends up being better, and leaves his money with a kind widow to go on another trip. The ship he goes on is captured by pirates and Crusoe is then enslaved in a North African town named Sallee. After years of imprisonment, Robinson manages to escape on a fishing boat with a little slave boy named Xury. After escaping pursuers, Robinson and Xury sail down the African coast until running into a friendly Portuguese captain. He buys pelts that Crusoe got while exploring the coast, and also buys Xury from him too, and takes Crusoe to Brazil.

When other plantation owners needed slaves to work their farms they asked Crusoe to sail to Africa. Crusoe agreed and set sail. On the way there they ran into many storms. Three men were killed very soon. The twelfth day was a hard one.

Once more his expedition ends in a catastrophe as the ship he is on is overtaken by pirates and Crusoe becomes enslaved. After two years of being enslaved Crusoe and another slave named Xury manage to escape to a ship headed to Brazil. After settling down and becoming successful with a tobacco plantation he decides to go get slaves from Africa to bring back to help him. But once again he is caught in a storm and becomes shipwrecked on an Island in which is later known as the island of despair. Crusoe had managed to be the only survivor of this shipwreck and is left to fight on his own.

Unfortunately, another sided god, Poseidon, creates a high wind storm that strands Odysseus on the island of the Phaecians. After dining, the King and Queen discover who he is and ask for his story of what he has endured over the years. Odysseus begins with when him and his men leaving their homeland, being shipwrecked resulting in the loss of all his men. He continues to explain he was the lone survivor and was rescued by the beautiful, yet evil Calypso who held him against his will. He remained there for seven years.

These form of novels are called “the stream of consciousness”, and its form goes by hearing characters’ thoughts and their inner emotions. Mr. James prefers, as I interpret, that a novel should have characters combined with the actions they go through. I agree with him, since I find much pleasure in reading such works of fiction. That is of course my own taste, and not my own opinion, since an opinion should be objective. In conclusion, life can be seen in characters, which are in action.

From Reckless to Cautious Heedlessness can lead to a life of misery and destruction through the lack of thought of caution regarding any possible negative result. Robinson Crusoe rebelled against his father's wishes of him entering into law, by instead seeking to voyage the sea which leads to his perilous journey of getting shipwrecked and even becoming a slave. Through skill and caution he makes it out of slavery and starts a plantation in Brazil. While in Brazil he demonstrates his learning capabilities with his plantation, but his lack of prudency is also apparent. When Crusoe decides to once again traverse the sea but is soon left on a desolate island and is forced to challenge his might and acquire the skill of caution.

This novel began with Crusoe telling us how much of a desire he had for sailing and how he gave into going sailing with his companion to London. His yearn for sailing also suggests how much he wanted to get away from England. It is obvious to see his feelings for England were not very strong nor was his family relationship. The lack of names in his family showed us he did not want us to become familiar with them and therefore showed he did not have a strong relationship with them. This first journey made way for more to come, one including Crusoe becoming a slave and another involving a Portuguese captain who willingly took him to Brazil.

While being dragged he also deals with wrist pain, weakness from the lack of sleep and lack of food. On his way back to the village, he loses the marlin to sharks. Even though he lost his marlin, the old man still returned feeling undefeated. Characterization is the description or portrayal of a character in a literary work. In The Old Man and the Sea , Santiago is old fisherman living in Cuba.

When Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World, he created an intriguing and effective novel, designed to captivate the audience and provide them with a story that is easy to digest, even though it is complex. He accomplishes this through a combination of careful plot structure and the use of subplots. His subplot provides a foil, useful for contrasting the protagonist of the story, and also gives the reader a wider view of the setting of the story. Huxley takes an unconventional but powerful approach to his plot structure; organizing an episodic plot structure into a plot that can also be considered progressive. This increases his ability to develop his characters while maintaining a series of events that draws the reader in and keeps the story transitioning nicely, and creates a story that is sure to please all audiences.