Alive and Robinson Crusoe

Perseverance
1. Meaning
  1. To keep going
    1. Achieve success
  2. Not giving up
    1. No matter how difficult it is
Alive by Piers Pauls Read
1. Avalanche
  1. Roy
    1. Faint vibration
    2. Sound of metal falling
    3. Only one to hear the avalanche
    4. Started to save others
      1. Fito, Canessa,Paez and Moncho were free and digging
    5. Burrowed for Carlitos
      1. Carltios could not free himself
        Would he live?
    6. Never wanted to survive alone
    7. Roy uncovered Canessa
    8. Appalled to see what has happened
  2. 29th October
  3. 8 survivors died
  4. Survivors had to help the trapped with bare hands
    1. All wanted to help each other
  5. Echavarren could not move
  6. Nogueira seemed paralysed
2. Rugby Team heading to Chile from Uruguay
  1. Crashed into the Andes mountains on Friday 13th October 1972
    1. Survived for 72 days
      1. Rescued when Canessa and Parrado found civilisation
      2. 16 survivors
    2. Trecherous conditions
      1. -30oC temperatures
    3. Fri 13th superstitious
    4. 45 passengers
      1. 12 died in crash
    5. Lack of food and drink
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
1. Ship wreck into an Trinidad Island
2. survived on Island full of difficulties
3. Swam through waves to get to the Island
4. Robinson Crusoe
  1. An Englishmen from York
  2. Ambition to go to sea
    1. Father seen it dangerous
      1. Obeyed his father
    2. Went to London (by sea)
      1. Storm causes near death
      2. Trip from London was financially successful
    3. Second trip
      1. Ship seized by Moorish pirates
      2. 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
5. Crusoe shipwrecked in Trinidad
  1. September 1st 1659
  2. June 1660
    1. Falls ill
      1. Hallucinates
        Angel visits
      2. Drinking Tobacco-steeped rum
        Crusoe experiences a religious illumination
        God has delivered him from his earlier sins
      3. 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
  3. One evening
    1. hears gunshots
    2. ship wrecked on the coast
      1. it is empty when he aririves
  4. the shore has been strewn with human carnage, the remains of a cannibal feast
    1. Crusoe catches sight of 30 cannibals heading for shore
    2. 1 of the victims is killed
      1. 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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