Robinson Crusoe

1.Daniel Defoe

    He is an English author and a reporter. His works are mainly about a person uses his knowledge and courage to conquer the difficulty.  Daniel Defoe is seem to be the pioneer of English novels.

2.Story

    Crusoe sails to the Queen's Dock in Hull in August 1651, against the wishes of his parents, who want him to study law.

    After a storm, his ship is wrecked. His lust for the sea remains so strong that he sets out to sea again. But the ship is taken over by Salé pirates and Crusoe is enslaved by a Moor(摩爾人). Two years later, he escapes in a boat with a boy named Xury; a Captain of a Portuguese ship off the west coast of Africa rescues him. The ship is en route to Brazil.

    After a few years, Crusoe joins a trip which is about to brings slave from the Africa. But the ship is wrecked in a storm AGAIN!! 

    He takes out the weapons and food in the shipwrecks, and then starts his life on this island and the fight against the cannibals(食人族)...

3.My Thought

    I read this novel after I watched the movie Cast Away (浩劫重生), and I found that there are some interesting similarity between them (although they might be totally different for some people).
    Everyone knows "Friday" is the volley ball's name in the movie. But actually in the novel, Robinson save a slave from the cannibals, and named him "Friday".
    Tom Hanks (the cast in the movie) makes the things and gets the food all by himself. But Robinson get the thing he needs in the shipwreck!
    This book is perfectly conformed the Hero's Journey (people who don't know can google Joseph Campbell)──starting from a shipwreck, life on an island, fighting against the cannibals, beating the traitors (叛徒), and finally coming back home and enjoying the wealth and the wonderful life with his wife and son.