I thought I knew this story, but it's quite different from how I remembered. Robinson Crusoe is a selfish and ambitious young man who rejects the secure, mundane life offered by his family and goes off to make his fortune as a plantation owner in Brazil.
When he's shipwrecked, he starts to question why he alone was saved, and why he was able to rescue from the ship enough goods to survive. By degrees he starts to believe that God was giving him a chance to reform his life.
He rescues Friday from Caribbean cannibals, and then he and Friday rescue the captain of a ship whose crew has mutinied. They leave the mutineers on the island and sail home. He's able to sell his plantation for a fortune and rewards everyone who helped him. Later he revisits the island, now a thriving community. The story ends with the promise of a second part to the story and his further adventures.
So it's a story about how a man transforms himself through adversity, as well as a great yarn about survival.
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