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Unit 3 Adventuring
Period 4 Reading B
My First Sea Voyage
the story of a man who spent 28 years abandoned on a deserted island.
produced about 318 publications contributed significantly to the
development of the novel as an emerging genre in English literature
masterpieces: Robinson Crusoe Captain Singleton
A Journal of the Plague Year
Seventeenth-century England. Maritime era—a time when
there was great interest in exploration and discovery.
The storm increased and the waves rose very high.
The wind had died down and the sea had become calmer.
The weather cleared up, the wind died away, and a charming, fine evening followed.
The weather cleared up, the wind died away, and a charming, fine evening followed.
The storm increased and the waves rose very high.
The wind had died down and the sea had become calmer.
Robinson’s mood changes
The storm increased and the waves rose very high.
All this time the storm increased and the waves rose very high.
…it was enough to make a big impression on me, as I was only a young sailor and knew nothing about the sea. I expected every wave to eat us up and, every time the ship dived down into the depths of the waves, I thought we would never come up again.
…if my life would be spared on this one voyage, I would go directly home to my father if I ever set foot upon dry land again and would never set sail in a ship again as long as I lived.
…I resolved that I would listen to his advice and never place myself into such a desperate situation as this again...I thus resolved that I would go home to my father.
frightened
regretful
eager to go back home
The wind had died down and the sea had become calmer.
…but the
next day the wind had died
down and the sea had become calmer
and I began to get used to it. However, I was
very serious throughout that day, being also a little sea-sick still…
relaxed
sick
The weather cleared up, the wind died away, and a charming, fine evening followed.
…but later on the weather cleared up,
the wind died awa