İNGİLİZ/AMERİKAN EDEBİYATI I - Deneme Sınavı - 13

They earned money from colonial trade.

Characterization

One detail he adds in his journal is about the time when he is flooded with thoughts of religion upon discovering a type of barley and rice that is growing up on the island, although he has not cultivated any. However, he reports that he forgets about the spiritual enlightenment very quickly

Because there is a scarcity of ink, Robinson reports that from this time on he will not give a daily account of his experiences, but will write just about the most important things.

He also teaches his parrot to speak its own name: POLL

Moorish pirates

On the sixth of November in his sixth year on the island, Robinson sets sail with his small boat to make a tour around his island. He goes to the east of the island but is soon caught into an eddy that carries him a little away from the island. He has to spend about four days trying to survive.

He spends the next three months to build a hedge and tames several goats and by the end of four years, his flock grows into forty-three including the ones he killed to eat. He also learns to milk them and manages to produce butter and cheese. He is thankful for the abundance of food and is pleased that he has his own subjects (the animals) that he would rule as he wishes. He calls his dog and the two cats his family, and the parrot his servant.

A terrible storm broke out

In the morning he searches the place once more, but he cannot find a sign of neither any other man nor a vessel that might have brought the man. He concludes that the footprint belongs to one of the savages living on the other island. He is terribly scared that the savages would take all his goats and destroy his cornfields and resolves to produce more corn to secure his future.

For about two or three months he makes visits to the hill to catch a boat approaching the island, but all his observations are fruitless, and he reconsiders his plan and finally comes to the conclusion that he has no authority to judge and punish the cannibals.

Friday

Soon, Robinson names the savage Friday because he saved the life of the savage on a Friday. Moreover, he teaches him to speak. The first word that he teaches Friday is “Master” which he uses as his name.

He wanted him to be a middle-class man

Following a long voyage Robinson arrives England after thirty five years’ absence. He finds the widow to whom he entrusted his money before leaving England and promises to help her when he has the opportunity. Then, he goes to Yorkshire, where he discovers that almost all his family have died and the remaining members of the family thought he was dead.

When Robinson finally arrives England, he sends several letters to Lisbon to sell his plantations in Brazil, and sets himself up as a new man in England taking two of his nephews into his care, marrying and having three children of his own in seven years’ time. During this period, it is the widow that prevents him from going abroad, but when his wife dies, he once more sets sail as a trader to East Indies.

Self-centered

Robinson competes with the neighboring plantation owners.

Dee received education and she now lives in the city. Dee has a pretty face, light skin and she has style of her own. She preferred having nice things around and with the help of her mother she was able to receive education. The right answer is D.

Alice Walker was active in Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. She defines herself as a ‘womanist’ which means a black feminist. She has spoken for the women’s movement, the anti-apartheid movement and against female genital mutilation. She is against all kinds of oppression against women. The correct answer is A.