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Alive and Robinson Crusoe
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A Level AS English Language and Literature Mind Map on Alive and Robinson Crusoe, created by kazoakley on 26/03/2014.
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Alive and Robinson Crusoe
Perseverance
Meaning
To keep going
Achieve success
Not giving up
No matter how difficult it is
Alive by Piers Pauls Read
Avalanche
Roy
Faint vibration
Sound of metal falling
Only one to hear the avalanche
Started to save others
Fito, Canessa,Paez and Moncho were free and digging
Burrowed for Carlitos
Carltios could not free himself
Would he live?
Never wanted to survive alone
Roy uncovered Canessa
Appalled to see what has happened
29th October
8 survivors died
Survivors had to help the trapped with bare hands
All wanted to help each other
Echavarren could not move
Nogueira seemed paralysed
Rugby Team heading to Chile from Uruguay
Crashed into the Andes mountains on Friday 13th October 1972
Survived for 72 days
Rescued when Canessa and Parrado found civilisation
16 survivors
Trecherous conditions
-30oC temperatures
Fri 13th superstitious
45 passengers
12 died in crash
Lack of food and drink
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Ship wreck into an Trinidad Island
survived on Island full of difficulties
Swam through waves to get to the Island
Robinson Crusoe
An Englishmen from York
Ambition to go to sea
Father seen it dangerous
Obeyed his father
Went to London (by sea)
Storm causes near death
Trip from London was financially successful
Second trip
Ship seized by Moorish pirates
Crusoe enslaved in North African town Sallee
Fishing trip
Crusoe broke free down the African Coast
Portuguese captain picks him up
Buys the slave boy from Crusoe
Crusoe ends up in Brazil
Sole survivor
Seeks for food and shelter
Returns to the ship twelve times
salvage guns, powder, food and other items
finds goats he can graze for meat and builds a shelter
Crusoe shipwrecked in Trinidad
September 1st 1659
June 1660
Falls ill
Hallucinates
Angel visits
Drinking Tobacco-steeped rum
Crusoe experiences a religious illumination
God has delivered him from his earlier sins
When Crusoe recovers, he makes a survey of the area and discovers he's on an Island
Finds a pleasant valley abounding in grapes
builds a shady retreat
Crusoe becomes optimistic
describes himself as it's "king"
Trains a pet parrot and takes a goat as a pet
Develops skills in basket weaving, bread making and pottery
cuts down a cedar tree and builds a huge canoe from it's trunk
can't move it to sea
builds a smaller boat
he rows around the island
nearly perishes when swept away from a powerful current
hears his parrot calling his name and is thankful for being saved once again
Crusoe discovers a man's footprint on the beach
At first he assumes the footprint is the devil's
Must belong to one of the cannibals said to live in the island
he arms himself and remains on the lookout
Builds an underground cellar to herd his goats at night
devises a way to cook undergrond
One evening
hears gunshots
ship wrecked on the coast
it is empty when he aririves
the shore has been strewn with human carnage, the remains of a cannibal feast
Crusoe catches sight of 30 cannibals heading for shore
1 of the victims is killed
another waiting to be slaughtered
Breaks free
Crusoe protects him
Killing 1 of the pursers and injuring the other
the victim finally kills him
the victim vows his gratitude
the victim is named Friday
the day he was saved
becomes Crusoe's servant
Cheerful and intelligent Crusoe teaches him English
Friday teaches that cannibals are divided into distinct nations and only eat enemies
The cannibals saved the men from the shipwreck
He would rather die than lose Crusoe
they both built a boat to visit the cannibals island
before they can leave they are surprised by 21 cannibals in canoes
the cannibals are holding 3 victims
One being Friday's father
Crusoe sends the Spaniard and Friday's father to check the land
An English ship alerts Friday
Crusoe is suspicious
Friday and Crusoe watch as 11 men take 3 captives onshore in a boat
9 of the men explore the land
leaving 2 to guard the captive
1 which is captain
Friday and Crusoe kill most of the cannibals and release a Spaniard
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