Turma 84 Grupo 1 C

      I am Robinson Crusoe, and I was born in York, England, in the year 1632.My father was German,  and he was a merchant. My mother was english. I had 2 brothers, one died as a soldier, in France, and the other disappeared.  I came from a good family.

      I went to a very good school and my parents taught me a lot. My father always told me not to go to sea, but I disobeyed him and went to the sea. He always said to me: "People that go to sea are not like you". First I travelled to London, and then to Africa.

       When I went to Africa, my ship was caught by pirates, and I worked as a slave for 2 years. Then I escaped and went to Brazil, and became a sugar planter.But I don't wanted a life like that. After some time I went to Africa to buy slaves.

       The voyage was fine, but a storm hit us, our ship wrecked and we jumped into a small boat. There were huge waves.When I woke up in the next morning I saw that I was in a strange place and everybody was dead.

       I decided to sleep on a tree, as wild animals couldn't climb trees and I would be safe .The next morning I saw the ship and I thought that if I stayed in the ship, I'd be safe.As long as I needed food, drink and dry clothes I swan towards the ship and took form it everythings I might needed. Then I made myself a raft in order to take all that things to the shore. I rowed towards the shore and followed a small river, looking for a place where I could live and keep my things. After that I climbed a small hill and noticed that I was in an island.

     Knowing that, I made myself a small hut, and I returned to the ship in order to bring to the shore more things.I found a place on a steep hill wich had fresh water and shade near the sea and I decided to live in it. There I was safe. However I made two fences in front of a rocky wall that was at the back of that place. Quickly I learned how kill goats. I put a large peace of wood on the shore and everyday I made a mark in it.

    I began to write a diary and I started to divide the day into parts. I was very busy working in the cave at the back of my hut and in it. I noticed that were corn and rice growing near my hut.  I decided to save them in order to plant them other day. One day the island was hitted by a hurricane and an earthquake. I was really terrified. After that I became very ill and I dreamed that I would die because I haven't asked God to forgive my faults. Than I decided to be a better person and more religious. I took a medicine and I got better.

    I decided to start exploring the island. I discovered a beautiful place with a lot of fruits. I built another hut there. I started to plant corn and rice there, but I continued exploring the island. After some time, I learned how to make bread and I teached my parrot some words. I saw a land close to  mine and I decided to go there. I wanted to escape form that island where I lived for so many years. I made a canoe and went to the water. However, the curents were very strong and they pulled my canoe far out to the sea. I was afraid of dying in the ocean and I was very happy when I managed to return to my island.

    I started to tame goats because my gunpowder was running out. Now I could have milk, goatskin and meat. One day, to my surprisy, I saw a footprint in the sand. That night I didn't sleep because I was too terrified. Three days after that I felt braver and I returned to the place where I saw the footprint. I was thinking that it was,maybe,my own footprint. But I was wrong. It couldn't be mine. I was frightened again and I decided to make myself safe so, if I saw a cannibal, I could protect myself. Two years after that, I noticed that cannibals had gone to the island in order to kill and eat people. The next years, I felt very scared but, after some time, I became very angry with them. I decided to kill the cannibals and save their prisioner, but I noticed that was dangerous and wrong to kill cannibals.

     One night, I heard the sound of a gun. There was a terrible storm that night. It surely was a ship calling for help. I decided to call her attention. However, nothing happened. The next day I went to the shore and I saw the wreck of the ship. I was very sad because if there were survivors I could talk to another person. A few days later, I went to the wreck in my canoe. I noticed that it was a Spanish ship. There were only two bodies in the wreck of the ship. I took some drink, food, gunpowder, money, clothes and a dog from the wreck.

     I wanted to save the prisoner of the cannibals so he would help me to scape from the island.  I knew that I had to kill all the cannibals in order to do that. One day, I saw them arriving in the island. After that they started to kill one of the prisoners, while the second one waited. All of a sudden the man who was waiting, ran towards my part of the island. Three of the cannibals followed him.The prisoner swam across a river. A few seconds later all of them were very close to me. Then, I saved the prisoner and with my new servant, I killed the cannibals. He was really thankful. I decided to call him Friday. The next day, Friday and I went down to the shore, that was red with the blood of the people that the cannibals had eaten. I told Friday that it was wrong to eat people.

      Friday was a great servant. I taught him many things, such as my religion and English .I was very happy because now I had someone to talk with. One day, Friday told me that it was possible to go to his country in a big canoe. He also told me about some Europians that lived in his land.I was afraid that if Friday went back to his country he would forgot about God. However, he promissed me he would teach his people to not to eat people and to pray to God. We decided that we would go to Friday's country and with the white man try to return to Europe. We made a canoe and I decided that we would try to escape in December or November.   

      When the raining season finished we started to get ready for our voyage. One morning I saw Friday terrified, he said the cannibals returned to the island and he was afraid they wanted to kill him. I decided that, with my new servant, I would fight them.We went to a place near where the cannibals were. They had already killed a prisoner and the next to die was a white man. We fired our guns and killed some cannibals. While the alive ones were running I helped the prisoners. One was Spanish and the other was not an European. When Friday saw him he got really happy. He was his father. We carried the prisoners to our hut but, as they couldn't been carried over the ladder, we made a tent outside the fence for him.

     I was afraid that the cannibals that managed to escape would return, but Friday's father thought that it wouldn't happen. One day I asked  the Spanish man if, in his opinion, the other white man in Friday's country would like to go to my island. Here we could make a boat and escape together. I was afraid that I could be taken to Spain and killed because I had a different religion, but the Spanish man promissed me that it wouldn't happen. If the other Spanish man went to my island we'd have to grow more food ,capture more goats and dry more grapes to feed all of them. Friday's father and the Spanish man went to the mainland,where Friday's people lived, in order to bring the white man to my island if they promissed not to hurt me and to do everythings I told them.

      One night I was waken up by Friday. He said that they have come back, however I saw that  the boat was not coming from the mainland and, when I climbed up to the top of the hill, I saw an English ship. I told myself that it was necessary to be careful. I noticed that three men in the boat were prisoners. They were sat down on the beach and the others started to explore the island. The sea had gone out leaving the boat on the island. They couldn't escape form there unless the sea returns. The next day, I decided to talk to the prisoners, while the other man were sleeping. One of them was the capitain of the ship ,but there had been a mutiny and they would be left on the island to die.

      We decided to fight. I gave the prisoners some guns and we managed to kill the men who led the mutiny and the other men promissed that they would follow the captain. However, they had their feet and hands tied up. The capitain promissed that he would take me back to England if we managed to get the ship back. We started to think how we could recuperate the ship. We decided to make a role in the botton of the boat and take everything out of it, so that if some men of the ship decided to go to the island looking for the others they wouldn't take the boat back.

     Then ten men went to the shore and started to look for our prisoners, but, after a while, decided to return to the ship. Then, Friday and the captain's mate started to shout and make some of them follow their voices. They  needed to cross a river, so they called the men in the boat to row them across the river and to stay with the boat while they followed Friday and the capitain's mate. So, we surprised the men at the boat and one of them accepted to fight with us and some of our prisoners

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         Then, when the others men got tired and decided to return the boat they noticed that it was empty they got really scared. At that night, we went close to them, killed the leader of the mutiny and made the others men promissed to be loyal to the capitain once more. Then, we fixed the hole in the first boat and  the capitain with some men let the island in order to take back the ship. After taking back the ship the capitain brought me some presents including clothes. I let the prisioners stay in the island and, while the ship was getting ready, I told then my story and teached them a lot of useful things. The next day I finally went back to England.

          In England I found that my only living relatives were my sisters and my nephews. After some days I decided to go to Lisbon. I met the Portuguese capitain that had saved my life there. He said that my plantation in Brazil had gone very well. When I recived the money that it was made by my plantation I realized that I was very rich. I gave some money to the widow of the English capitain and to the Portuguese capitain. Than I went back to England. I didn't go by ship, I decided to go by land with Friday, some servants and others people. The wolves were a great danger, but we managed to get there safe. I sold my plantation, brought my nephews to live with me, married with a woman and I had three sons. When my wife died I went with my nephew to the East Indies. On this voyage I visited my old island and discovered many things that happened in it.