1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
Bumek [7]
3 years ago
12

Why dose Robinson Crusoe teach some of the sailors how to live on his land

English
1 answer:
Elina [12.6K]3 years ago
6 0

Chapters XIII–XVII

Summary: Chapter XIII — I Sow My Grain

After planting his grain in the dry season when it cannot sprout, Crusoe learns from his mistake, and afterward makes a table of the dry and rainy months to facilitate his farming. He also discovers that the wooden stakes he drove into the ground when building his “bower,” or country house, have sprouted and grown. Over the course of several years they grow into a kind of sheltering hedge providing cool shade. Crusoe also teaches himself to make wicker baskets, imitating the basket makers he remembers from his childhood. By this time he lacks only tobacco pipes, glassware, and a kettle.

Summary: Chapter XIV — I Travel Quite Across the Island

Finally carrying out his earlier wish to survey the island thoroughly, Crusoe proceeds to the western end, where he finds he can make out land in the distance. He concludes it belongs to Spanish America. Crusoe is reluctant to explore it for fear of cannibals. He catches a parrot that he teaches to speak, and discovers a penguin colony. He takes a goat kid as a pet, keeping it in his bower where it nearly starves until Crusoe remembers it. By this point, Crusoe has been on the island two years, and his moments of satisfaction alternate with despairing moods. He continues to read the Bible and is consoled by the verse that tells him God will never forsake him.

Summary: Chapter XV — I Am Very Seldom Idle

Crusoe spends months making a shelf for his abode. During the rainy months he plants his crop of rice and grain but is angered to discover that birds damage it. He shoots several of the birds and hangs them as scarecrows over the plants, and the birds never return. Crusoe finally harvests the grain and slowly learns the complex process of flour grinding and bread making. Determined to make earthenware pots, Crusoe attempts to shape vessels out of clay, failing miserably at first. Eventually he learns to shape, fire, and even glaze his pots. Thinking again of sailing to the mainland, Crusoe returns to the place where the ship’s boat has been left upturned by the storm. He tries for weeks to put it right side up but is not strong enough.

Summary: Chapter XVI — I Make Myself a Canoe

“Poor Robin Crusoe! Where are you? Where have you been? How come you here?”

(See Important Quotations Explained)


Resolving to make a canoe, Crusoe selects and cuts down an enormous cedar. He spends many months hacking off the branches, shaping the exterior, and hollowing out the insides. The result is a far larger canoe than he has ever seen before. He now realizes the mistake of not previously considering its transport, since for him alone it is immovable. He considers building a canal to bring the water to the canoe, but he calculates it would take too long and abandons the idea. By this point, four years have passed. He reflects that all his wants are satisfied, since he already has everything that he can possibly use on his island. He feels gratitude imagining how much worse off he could be now. He also reflects on several calendar coincidences that he finds remarkable: he left his family on the same day he was enslaved by the Moor; he escaped from the ship near Yarmouth on the same day that he escaped from Sallee; and he was born on the same day he was cast ashore on the island. Crusoe undertakes to make himself some new clothing out of animal skins, and he also constructs an umbrella. Building a smaller canoe, he sets out on a tour around the island. He is caught in a dangerous current that threatens to take him out to sea and away from the island forever, and when he is saved he falls to the ground in gratitude. Crusoe hears a voice say his name repeatedly on his return, asking where he has been, and Crusoe discovers that it is his parrot Poll.

Analysis: Chapters XIII–XVII

With his survival no longer in question, Crusoe begins to redefine himself not as a poor castaway, but as a successful landowner. We see again how important his attitude is. He begins to refer to his island dwelling as his “home” and his “castle,” and when he constructs a shady retreat inland, he calls it his “bower” or “country seat,” both references having upper-class connotations. He refers to the totality of his land as his “plantations” and even refers to his goats as his “cattle.” All these terms suggest that his relationship to the island is becoming more proprietary, involving a much greater sense of proud ownership than before, though of course the ownership is a fiction, since there is no deed to this land. Naturally, he still has gloomy moods in which he bemoans his fate and views the island as a prison. But now the alternation between his different moods allows us to see how subjective his situation is and how nearly impossible it is to define Crusoe’s island experience objectively. Totally dependent on his frame of mind, it is, as he says, “my reign, or my captivity, which you please.”



You might be interested in
Wyatt and his parents were at the restaurant, waiting for their meals to be delivered. As
pochemuha

Answer:

Other people might want what you have

Explanation:

Jeff wanted a father like Mr. Matthews while Wyatt wanted a father like Jeffs

8 0
3 years ago
Please help me with this... Does this rule help us survive or thrive? Why? Rule: If a grown up ever starts a sentence by saying
Leto [7]
I believe that this rule helps us thrive because it is taking about different life lessons. I also say that when you here these three words you should really listen because whatever it is its really juicy and important.
7 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Write a sentence using each of the following relative pronouns as a subject or an object in a subordinate clause
larisa [96]

Answer:

Who:Who are you?

What:What is an earthquake?

Which:Which side won?

That:He spoke so well that everybody was pleased.

Whom:She saw a lady whom she presumed worked at the store, and she asked her a question.

Whomever:Harry should give the award to whomever he thinks deserves it.

Whoever:Whoever he was, he was as strong as a lion.

7 0
2 years ago
Which answer shares a word part with the following word ? Word Parts : prefix , suffix , root studious (spending time studying )
bogdanovich [222]

Answer:

root studious

Explanation:

Really shure

You know I would like a brainley!??

8 0
2 years ago
Which phrase from the example contains figurative language?
OleMash [197]

Answer:

A. Like tears on a child's dirty face

Explanation:

4 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Other questions:
  • Read the excerpt from "I'm Not Thirteen Yet" by Amy Bernstein. Gradually, Lynette stopped inviting me over after school. One day
    15·2 answers
  • Which excerpt from the story best supports the international conflict you identified in the previous question
    9·1 answer
  • Although the words “premonition” and “foreboding” have similar meanings, they are different because _____.
    8·2 answers
  • Examples of irony in PIG by Ronald Dahl
    12·2 answers
  • Please read the 4 paragraph story and tell me the answers in the file below.
    5·2 answers
  • Freewriting is when I write for 3-5 minutes to help me find a topic. It looks like a diary or journal entry. True or False
    8·2 answers
  • What does eddie begin to wonder at age 23??
    8·1 answer
  • What change should be made to the underlined part of sentence?​
    15·2 answers
  • What is the most interesting literary theory / criticism? and why?
    12·1 answer
  • Freda is a fish when she swims.
    5·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!