The Movie: Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe is a novel that took place about the times of the the 17th century and even earlier. Robinson Crusoe was born into a wealthy family and was born in Great Britain. Robinson Crusoe was widely liked and well respected, but not just to his people, but the whole town that knew of him really enjoyed having him around. Crusoe was always wanting to becoming an explorer that travels the seven seas and tries to make a living out of it. Although his father didn’t approve of it he still decided to go over his well respected father and his commands. He went on all kinds of different ships to try not only travel far but to explore different territory and different landscapes that humans haven’t seen, as so thought of by many people during this time.
While Robinson Crusoe was out exploring and enjoying the seas, when he came upon a storm one day, with very harsh wind and pouring rain like never imaged. Robinson at one point didn’t believe he was gonna make it out of there alive, out of the sea with the boat rocking side- to-side. The strength of the waves that the ocean created were so powerful that the 600 meter long ship could not stand its ground when all of a sudden the ship, flipped and was swallowed by …show more content…
For one in the movie the Robinson Crusoe is not enslaved and nor captured. Robinson Repents to god in the novel but in the film he doesn’t at any point once repent to god, not one bit. During the scene of the rescue of Friday nowhere in the book does it state that Robinson kills the cannibal, rather stating that Robinson shoots and wounds the cannibal and Friday finishes killing him off. And one of the biggest changes that the movie does is that Friday ends up dead on the island after fighting the cannibals but in the novel it said Friday and Crusoe try to civilize the Cannibals and it also states that both Crusoe and Friday both made it to