Summary/Plot

Robinson Crusoe is a rebellious youth, he disregards his parents wishes of being a lawyer and decides to set out to sea.  The first ship he sets sail on, thanks to the help of a friend, gets involved with terrible storms and people tell Crusoe that this is a bad sign, and that he should probably stop his career in sea adventuring.  But, Crusoe was stubborn and too ashamed to go home, so he set off on another journey.  He traveled to Africa with a kind Captain but was then taken hostage in a town called Sallee  He served as a slave there along with a few other men.  His masters noticed he had a skill in fishing and frequently send him out to do so, and using this to his advantage, Crusoe along with another lad named Xury, escaped and set off to sea again.  They stopped in Brazil, and Crusoe decided to make a new start. He settled and started growing sugar.  He decided that buying slaves would help him in his new line of work, and he along with other neighboring planters took a trip to Africa to buy slaves.  While on this trip there was  another terrible storm and the ship wrecked leaving only Crusoe alive.   He used his survival skills to find food, build shelter and salvaged any useful goods from the ship as he could.  During this time by himself, Crusoe became closer to God, he became stronger physically and mentally, he developed new skills and learned to support himself, he became more grateful and kept a journal.  Crusoe became ill a number of times, and each time he became ill he prayed heavily to God and thought he was going to die, but amazingly he was able to pull out of it.  He taught himself many things such as farming, building, and hunting.  He spent many years on the island reflecting his life and frustrating himself about his previous wickedness.  Throughout the fifteen years on the island, Crusoe noticed some changes in the landscape, he found some human bones, and footprints...and later some cannibals huddled around a fire.  Several years later, a ship wrecked near the island, and Crusoe took some of the ships goods. Later on Cannibals landed on the island and a man escaped from them.  Crusoe saved him and kept him as a slave, he was named Friday.  Friday helped Crusoe build a boat and they made plans to leave.  Savages returned and put a damper on this idea of escape, but they attacked the cannibals and saved two men; one white man, and the other, Friday's father.  They planned another voyage and saved up food but the other two men ended up going and saving 16 other and left Friday and Crusoe behind.  Even though they were left behind, the two were saved by a ship that was falling apart because of a rebellion.  Crusoe and Friday helped the old captain gain control and he took them back to England.  Crusoe realized that he was quite a wealthy man, he sold his plantation in Brazil for a price, got married, had three children, and returned to check on his island.