Robinson Cruseo

[Kristian]

Mannen som inspirerte til å skrive om Robinson Cruseo var en sjømann som ble uenig med kapteinen og ble satt i land på en øy. Han fikk med seg ett våpen med noen få kuler og litt krutt. Dette brukte han når han jaktet på geitene som var på øya. Han fant også noen grønnsaker og frukt å spise. Denne dietten førte til at alt fettet på kroppen forsvant så
når kulene og kruttet var oppbrukt var han blitt så slank og rask at han sprang fortre enn geitene. Han jaktet faktisk med bare hendene og føttene.
Han hadde noen få korn som han hadde sådd men de hadde han ikke brydd seg mer med fordi lysten på kornmat hadde gitt seg.

Denne historien leste jeg om i et historieblad.

[Nille]

Er dette samme mann som i Daniel Defoes roman "Robinson Crusoe", om han som var i et skipsforlis og våket på en strand på en øde øy .... som fant en innfødt som han kalte Fredag etc. etc. ?? Boka er basert på en sann historie om Alexander Selkirk som ble reddet etter 4 år alene på en ubebodd øy utenfor kysten av Chile.

Her er et lite sammendrag av boka - fra et leksikon:

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Crusoe leaves England on a sea voyage in September 1651 against the wishes of his parents. The ship is taken over by Salè pirates and Crusoe becomes the slave of a Moor. He manages to escape with a boat and is befriended by the Captain of a Portuguese ship off the western coast of Africa. The ship is en route to Brazil. There with the help of the Captain, Crusoe becomes owner of a plantation.
He joins an expedition to bring slaves from Africa, but he is shipwrecked in a storm about forty miles out to sea on an island near the mouth of the Orinoco river on September 30, 1659. His companions all die; he manages to fetch arms, tools and other supplies from the ship before it breaks apart and sinks. He proceeds to build a fenced-in habitation and cave, keeps a calendar by making marks in a piece of wood. He hunts, grows corn, learns to make pottery, raises goats, etc. He reads the Bible and slowly becomes religious, thanking God for his fate in which nothing is missing but society.
He discovers native cannibals occasionally visit the island to kill and eat prisoners. At first he plans to kill the savages for their abomination, but then he realizes that he has no right to do so as the cannibals have not attacked him and do not knowingly commit a crime. He dreams of capturing one or two servants by freeing some prisoners, and indeed, when a prisoner manages to attempt escape, Crusoe helps him, naming his new companion "Friday" after the day of the week he appeared, and teaches him English and converts him to Christianity.
After another party of natives arrive to partake in a grisly feast, Crusoe and Friday manage to kill most of the natives and save two of the prisoners. One is Friday's father and the other is a Spaniard. The Spaniard informs Crusoe that there are other Spaniards shipwrecked on the mainland. A plan is devised where the Spaniard would return with Friday's father to the mainland and bring back the others, build a ship, and sail to a Spanish port and salvation for all.
Before the Spaniards return, an English ship appears; it turns out that a mutiny had broken out on the ship and the mutineers intend to maroon their captain on the island. The captain and Crusoe manage to retake the ship. They leave for England but leave behind three of the mutineers on the island to fend for themselves and inform the Spaniards what happened when they arrive. Crusoe left the island on December 19, 1686. He travels to Portugal to find his old Captain friend who informs him his plantation in Brazil was well cared for and he has become wealthy. From Portugal he travels overland to England, to avoid mishaps at sea, via Spain and France; in a mountainous region in winter, he and his companions have to fend off an attack of vicious wolves. Back in England, he decides to sell his plantation, as returning to Brazil would entail converting to Catholicism. Later in life after marrying and having two children and becoming widowed, he returns to his island for a last time. The book ends with a hint about a sequel that would detail his return to the island, which has since been discovered.

[Kristian]

Jepp, dette er samme mann, Alexander Selkirk ble satt i land i 1704 og måtte leve alene i fire år på øya som i 1966 fikk navnet Robinson Crusoe. Øya har idag 600 innbyggere og ligger vest for Chile.

Sitat fra Overskrift;
2. februar 1709 fant en engelsk kaptein en forkommet kar på en øy i Stillehavet. Dette er hans øyenvitneskildring av mannen som ble modell for Robinson Crusoe.


Jeg skal være enig i at det er ikke mye som Selkirk og Crusoe har til felles. Det eneste de har til felles er at de hadde noen geiter, bibelen og hvor lenge de var på øya. Kan ikke akkurat si at Robinson Crusoe er en sann historie. Du skriver jo selv at det er en Roman.

Bladet heter ''Levende histori'' Nr.2-2006