Textuality » 4A Interacting
•1. Daniel Defoe fictionalised Alexander Selkirk's account of adventures, writing the story of Robinson Crusoe. He had made fortune around the world, when Moorish pirates attacked his ship. He shipwrecked on a desert island and tried to have a comfortable life. One day he saw a human footprint and at first he thought there were Indian cannibals. But then he met Friday, an native, who became his servant. In the end he returned to England and become very rich.
•2. He still some objects to count passing of time.
•3. He would not be able to remember the date and space.
•4. He looked for them in the boat.
•5. He still miss someone to stay and talk to.
•6. There are so many realistic details that look quite unusual for a work in fiction.
•7. The two descriptions are detailed and the reader knows exactly space and time of the actions.
•8. It adds reality to his texts.
•9. He uses ordinary, specific and concrete vocabulary.
•10. He uses long and complex sentences to give the reader as many pieces of information as possible.
•11. For example he describes his father many times, but always adding something new.
•12. The tale is not more difficult, it is just longer, more detailed.
•13. It is in first person and it makes look the story like a diary.
•14. Nowadays it is boring, because there is too much information useless, but at that time it was not, because the reader did not know those place and was pretty courious.