There is a novel in England that is known as "Britain's first novel in the true sense" and "the foundation of the realist novel", which has endured for 300 years since its publication in 1719 and played a huge role in the development of the British and European novel, and this novel is "Robinson Crusoe" written by Defoe, the "father of the English and European novel".
"Robinson Crusoe" this novel, Xiaobian has read in elementary school, was Robinson in the uninhabited desert island life for 28 years of survival desire to be impressed, when the editor saw that Robinson had no food in the desert island, can only catch unknown seabirds and turtles in the water to eat, but also think he is very pitiful, because seabirds and turtles have a very heavy fishy smell, normal people can not eat at all.
But when Xiaobian grew up and knew that Robinson's prototype lived a real life on a desert island, he knew that I had been deceived by Defoe for so many years, Robinson ate well, every day was lamb and lobster, and Xiaobian had not lived such a life for more than 20 years.
In the novel, Robinson is a very seafaring explorer, who often carries his father to sea, but the fourth time he goes to sea, he encounters a big storm and is blown to a desert island. Any boy or girl who sees Robinson's brave and fearless spirit will portray him as a big hero, but the real Robinson is an impulsive stunned youth.
In December 1704, the Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk quarreled with the captain, who wanted to throw him off the ship, and Alexander thought that the captain did not dare to actually throw him off the ship, so he took some navigational equipment and daily necessities to the island where the ship docked. He felt that the captain would not really throw him off the ship, and would coax him to the ship later, but he was wrong, the captain really left him on the island and left, Alexander was stupid to see the ship leave the island, no matter how he shouted the ship back, the ship just wouldn't come back, this Alexander was Robinson's archetypal character, and his momentary willfulness was the reason why he stayed alone on the desert island.
Alexander did not live on a desert island for 28 years before being rescued back to normal society as the novel wrote, and he lived on the desert island for only 4 years and 4 months before being rescued by two British civilian ships. Alexander wrote about his own experience in the newspaper in 1713, and Defoe did not see the article in the newspaper until six years later.
Defoe lived in an era of capitalism, the rise of maritime trade, defoe in order to cater to the market to prepare to write a story of a seafaring adventure, he just happened to see Alexander's story in the newspaper, he took inspiration from him, wrote Robinson Crusoe. Alexander's original experience is not as legendary as Robinson in the novel, and it was Defoe who exaggerated part of the fact that Alexander's life on a desert island was beautiful in order to create an image of a great hero in the minds of capitalists.
Alexander's desert island is called "Mastilla Island", because of the "Robinson Crusoe" fire was renamed "Robinson Island", this small island is evergreen, the climate is comfortable and pleasant, there are no poisonous snakes and beasts, it can be developed into a tourist resort, which is like the broken island in the novel, there are cannibals on it.
Alexander knew that no one would rescue him in a moment and a half, so he built a simple thatched hut and sat in the thatched hut facing the sea to see the Bible he had brought from the ship. If you are hungry, break the nails picked up on the shore into a fishing hook, use palm fiber as a fishing line, and run to the shore to fish and eat. There are all kinds of fish and shrimp in the sea, there is no need to eat turtles, he eats fish and shrimp every day, and many small fish and shrimp are raised in self-built ponds.
The Spanish fleet had been to the island of Mastilla a long time ago, where some goats had been stocked, and Alexander discovered the goats left behind by the Spaniards, which had grown to more than 100, and Alexander ate some in captivity. He also found some silly roe deer and wild cats on the island, and instead of eating them, he kept them with the sheep and drank the milk produced by the silly roe deer, which the cat used to catch the rampant rats on the desert island.
Alexander did not give up hope of returning to human society, he built a wooden tower on the highest point of the island, and no one found him for 4 years, until February 1709, when the fleet of the English navigator William Dampier discovered the wooden tower, thus finding that he had rescued him back to human society. The ship that abandoned him sank off the coast of Peru, and either the crew died or was captured and imprisoned by the Spaniards.
"Saion lost his horse and knew that it was not a blessing", so it seems that Alexander was blessed by misfortune, but Alexander did not live long, in 1721, two years after the publication of Robinson Crusoe, it swept the world, and Alexander unfortunately fell ill with fever and died on December 13, only 12 years after he returned to normal life.