Alexander Selkirk Research Paper

In 1704 a man saw a storm approaching towards his ship. The seas were rough there was lighting everywhere. He jumped off the ship tried to swim towards the land. A wave crashed over him; the next day he was on a island. This story is about a man named Alexander Selkirk. Alexander Selkirk was a famous explorer, survived on a deserted island for 6 years by thinking flexibly, and became the inspiration for the book Robinson Crusoe. Alexander was born in 1676. What caused him to go out to sea or become a sailor was his brother pranked him and he drinked sea water. Which resulted in a family fight and Alexander Selkirk decided to go be a sailor to make a fortune. After he went out to sea he got a job at ‘Cinque Ports’. After Alexander Selkirk …show more content…
Alexander Selkirk at first was reading his bible waiting for his resusce but that didn’t happened. He turned the island habitable using rats and goats and cats for company, (“ Two Extraordinary Travelers,” 2014). A certain amount of years later two ships arrived Alexander Selkirk rushed towards the ships realizing that they were spanish ships. The ships landing party started and forced him to flee back to the island and he avoided capture and the ships eventually departed or left the island, (“ Two Extraordinary Travelers,” 2014). Eventually two British ships arrived at the island on the first of February in 1709, (“ Two Extraordinary Travelers,” 2014). After Alexander Selkirk saw the ships he lit his fire signal to tell the ships someone was there. The captain of the ships was William Dampier who rescued him (“Alexander Selkirk,” 1995); who told Alexander Selkirk that he should be glad he left ‘Cinque Ports’ because it sinked of the coast of Peru with 8 survivors who were captured and left to rot in a Purian jail, (“ Two Extraordinary Travelers,” 2014). To survive Alexander Selkirk had to use the habit of mind thinking flexibly by looking in another way to do daily things on the island for a long time