Robinson Crusoe
In the 1600s, people were interested in science and new inventions. Sailors wanted to travel to new countries and see new things. Sometimes sailors were at sea for three or four years. Defoe took the idea for Robinson Crusoe from the true story of Alexander Selkirk. Selkirk was a sailor who spent four years alone on a small island near south America. In 1709, an English ship rescued him. Selkirk then wrote about his life and he became very famous.Robinson Crusoe is like Selkirk. He made a good home on the island and grew his own food .He had animals and he made his own clothes. He learnt to live alone.
في القرن السابع عشر اهتم الناس بالعلوم و الاختراعات الجديدة. أراد البحارة أن يسافروا إلى دول جديدة و رؤية أشياء جديدة. كانوا أحيانًا يمكثون في البحر لمدة ثلاث أو أربع سنوات. استوحى ديفو فكرة " روبنسون كروسو " من قصة حقيقية عن البحار "ألكسندر سيلكرك " الذي قضي أربع سنوات بمفرده على جزيرة صغيرة بالقرب من أمريكا الجنوبية. في عام 1709، أنقذته سفينة إنجليزية. ثم كتب سيلكرك عن حياته بعد ذلك و أصبح مشهورًا. روبنسون كروسو يشبه سيلكرك. قام بصنع منزل جميل على الجزيرة، كما قام بزراعة طعامه. كان لديه الحيوانات و صنع ملابسه الخاصة. و تعلم أن يعيش بمفرده.
Chapter 1
Robinson Crusoe was born in 1632 in York in England. He worked hard at school. His parents wanted him to find a good job, but he wanted to go to sea and become a sailor.
When he was 18, he went to London and found a ship which was sailing to a country in West Africa called Guinea. He bought some goods which he wanted to sell in Guinea and got on the ship. A short time later, the ship left
London.
During the long voyage,
Crusoe became a good sailor. When the ship arrived in Guinea, he sold
his goods and he went back to London
with a lot of money.
In London, Crusoe bought
more goods to sell and he sailed
towards Guinea again. When they were sailing towards Africa,
some pirates took the ship. The pirates took Crusoe and the other sailors to Morocco and sold them as slaves.
After two years, Crusoe was very unhappy and he wanted
to escape. One day, he took a small fishing boat.
He put some food and water in the boat and he sailed out to sea.
After some days in the small
boat, a ship sailed by and the captain of the ship rescued Crusoe. The captain was a kind man and his ship took Crusoe to Brazil, where he became a farmer and lived happily. After a few years, Crusoe wanted
to be a trader again, and in 1659 he sailed with some friends to Guinea to sell more goods.
During their voyage, the ship sailed into a big storm. The storm became worse and finally
the ship started to sink. All the sailors were thrown into the
sea. The next morning, Crusoe woke
up on a beach, but he couldn't see any of his friends, only the
ship's two cats. There was nobody from the ship with
him. He looked around the beach and he found a small river where he could wash and drink some water. That first
night, he slept in a big tree so that he was safe from dangerous animals or people.
Chapter 2
The
next morning, Crusoe decided to swim back to the
ship before it sank. He found some boxes of rice, cheese and meat. He looked for his friends, but there was nobody
on the ship. He built a small raft and during
the next few days he went back to the ship many times to collect food, tools, guns, knives and rope. That night, there was another storm and the ship sank.
Crusoe
spent the next few months building a strong fort where he could live. He made a table and chairs and
one day he found some goats. He had a lot of
things from the ship which were useful. He had a small telescope,
a compass, some books,
pens, ink and paper. He decided to write a diary
every day.
When
he walked around the island, he found a beautiful
valley. In the valley, there were orange
and lemon trees and melons.
It was beautiful and he decided to build a second house
there.
One
day, he caught a parrot. He taught it to say
some words. This made him very happy. In the next few months, he made some pots for cooking and keeping
his food. He had meat from the goats and he used his rice to grow more rice.
After three years
on the island, he decided to build a boat. He cut down
a very large tree and he spent four months building a big
boat. But he couldn't push the boat to the beach because it was too big!
In
the next few years, Crusoe learned to make clothes
from animal skins and he built a smaller boat which he used to sail around the island.
He caught some more goats and he made cheese from their milk.
His life was good now.
Then, one day while he was walking along the beach; he saw a man's footprint! He was very afraid and he ran back to his fort. He stayed there for three days and made his fort stronger. A few days later, he saw a fire on the beach and a man's bones. The men who were visiting the island were really dangerous.
Chapter 3
After Crusoe found the footprint
on the beach, he did not
feel safe. He was worried about the dangerous men, but they didn't come back to
the island. For the next few years, Crusoe lived quietly. He had a lot of food,
he worked hard and he wrote his diary at night.
One day, 22
years after he arrived on the island, Crusoe
saw the dangerous men again. He was really afraid, but the men quickly left the
island. A year later, while he was walking on a hill, he heard some guns. He ran to the top of the hill. With his telescope, he saw a large Spanish ship which was slowly sinking into the sea.
Crusoe sailed to the
ship in his small boat, but there was nobody on the ship. He found some useful cooking pots, clothes and a bag of gold
and silver coins.
A year and a half later, Crusoe saw five
small boats on the beach and some
dangerous men. These men had a
prisoner with them, but the prisoner
escaped and ran up the beach. Crusoe quickly rescued the man.
The man who Crusoe saved wanted to be
his slave. But Crusoe didn't want a slave, he
wanted a friend. He took the man to his house in the
valley and called him Friday because that was the day when he rescued him.
Crusoe was really
happy to have a friend and he taught
Friday to speak English. They spent the next three years very happily on the island. They told stories,
talked and laughed a lot.
One day, Friday ran back to the fort because he saw the
dangerous men on the beach again. They had a prisoner with them, so Crusoe and Friday thought
of a plan and rescued the prisoner. He was a Spanish sailor.
Then Crusoe and Friday discovered a second prisoner on the beach. It was a very big surprise because the man was Friday's father! Friday was really happy and he danced and laughed loudly. The four men went back to Crusoe's fort where they ate some food and rested.
Chapter 4
The four men became
good friends and they lived happily on the
island. One day, Crusoe was surprised to see an English
ship! A small boat sailed to the island and some sailors brought three prisoners from the ship.
Crusoe watched the men and learned
that the three prisoners were also sailors from
the ship. One of the men was the ship's captain who
was with two friends. The people who took them
to the island were mutineers and now they were
looking around the island.
Crusoe and Friday were brave and
they rescued the English captain and his two friends. Then they captured the
mutineers and they took back the English ship.
The English
captain wanted to thank Crusoe for his
help. He made a special meal and then he gave Crusoe his ship!
Crusoe was really happy. He didn't want to hurt the mutineers,
so he let them stay on the island. On 19 December 1686,
Crusoe left the island and sailed back to England with
Friday and the ship's
captain.
When Crusoe returned to England,
he married and had three
children. Sadly, eight years later, his wife
died and he decided to visit his island again.
He stayed there for three weeks and he helped
the people who were living there.
Crusoe felt sad when he left the island. When he returned to
England, he found it difficult to be happy, and after a few years, he decided
to go to sea again and work as a trader. He
wanted to use his experience to help other
sailors when they travelled through dangerous seas.
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