Daniel Defoe was an 18th century English novelist, journalist, and pamphleteer. Some key facts about his life and works: - He was born in London in 1660 and survived major events like the Great Fire of London and the Plague of London. He left school at 18 and worked in business. - His most famous novel, Robinson Crusoe, was published in 1719 and told the story of a castaway who spent 28 years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before being rescued. - In addition to Robinson Crusoe, Defoe wrote other novels that featured themes of adventure and travel

1. Julia Chernyanchook
Form 10A
School 5
Teacher: N.G.Savko

2.  Born in 1660 in London, as the
son of James Foe, a butcher.
 Famous novelist and journalist.
 Survived the Great Fire of
London, the Plague of London,
and the Dutch attack on London.
 He knew a lot of languages.
 When he was 10, his mother
passed away.
 His father expected Defoe to go
into the ministry.
 Was also a prolific political
pamphleteer which landed him
in prison for slander.
 At the age of 18, he left school
and went into business.
‘No man has tasted
differing fortunes more,
And thirteen times I
have been rich and poor;’

3. Fiction
•The Consolidator (1705)
•Atlantis Major (1711)
•Robinson Crusoe (1719)
•The Farther Adventures of
Robinson Crusoe (1719)
•Serious Reflections during
the Life and Surprising
Adventures of Robinson
Crusoe (1720)
•Captain Singleton (1720)
•Memoirs of a
Cavalier (1720)
•A Journal of the Plague
Year (1722)
•Moll Flanders (1722)
•Colonel Jack (1722)
•Roxana: The Fortunate
Mistress (1724)
Nonfiction
•The Shortest Way with
Dissenters (1702)
•The Storm (1704)
•The Family
Instructor (1715)
•Tour through the Whole
Island of Great
Britain (1724–1726)
•The Political History of the
Devil (1726)
•An Essay on the History
and Reality of
Apparitions(1727)
Poetry
•The True-Born Englishman:
A Satyr (1701)

4.  Books about voyages and new discoveries. It was about Alexander Selkirk, a
Scottish sailor, who had quarreled with his captain and was put ashore on a desert
island near South America.
 Robinson Crusoe was the son of German merchant in England.
 Mother wanted him to do the career in trade
 Crusoe refuses of career because he seeks adventures
Elements of the novel
Point of Views
First Person
Point of View
Characters
Robinson Crusoe
Friday
Captain
Turkish captain
Spaniard
Moral Values
Hard – Working
Gratitude
Loyalty and faithfulness
Courage and Detemination
Faith in God
Tolerance and Harmony
between races

5. lived on island 28 years and 2 months
struggled to survive
appeared in uninhabited island of South
America
ended with shipwreck
was ashamed to go home and admit to
his parents
was warned by the captain that he
should not be a seafaring man
shipwreck
19 years old
against the will of his parents

6.  he took some things from
the ship and was able to
use them correctly
(weapons, rope, some
food, clothing, tools)
 he created a calendar order
to know how long it will
stay on the island
 had 1 book (Bible) and read it a lot of
times
 made clothes from skins, furniture
 suilt an initial shelter
saw cannibals
soon he met a savage who nicknamed
Friday

7. Crusoe and
Friday
Crusoe
returns to
England,
with Friday
Crusoe
educates Frida
y, teaches him
to speak
English and
believe
in the Christia
n God.
Crusoe
learned more
about the
local tribe of
cannibals
Crusoe and
Friday attack the
cannibals and
successfully
rescue the
European, a Spani
ard, and Friday’s
father.
Friday and
Crusoe
decide to
leave the
island
together
Crusoe's
humble and
devoted
slave
Crusoe
taught
him
English