Re-writing a passage of Robinson Crusoe

The desire to voyage induced Robinson Crusoe to make a canoe. He was aware of almost all of the challenges that he might face. His extreme isolation was the first. Although he lacked resources, comparing himself with those people in the far remote areas making canoes without tools, made him more determined.  He knew about the tough job of making the canoe as well as the difficulty of launching it into the water. Despite the fact that he was well aware of all these problems, his concentrated intention to cross the sea made him inattentive about how to get a canoe from the land once it was made.

In his very first step for making the canoe, Crusoe found a big cedar tree. The tree was so big that he spent twenty days for cutting it down, fourteen days to chop off the head and branches, and another whole month to shape it like a canoe. He planned to make the whole canoe from that one single block of wood. For that purpose, he started to hewing that big trunk.  Although he knew the old technique of burning the wood to make a hole on it, he didn’t use that method. Crouse worked intensely with his mallet and chisel to dig the wood. Finally, after three months of extreme work, a great space was hollowed out in the trunk, enough to accommodate Crusoe with all his cargo. Following the canoe’s completion, Crusoe became very happy.

Crusoe’s happiness didn’t stay for long, because soon he had to tackle the distance between the canoe and water. Although it was only a hundred yards, it was uphill. He came out with a solution to dig the land in order to make an inclination on the surface so he could move the big canoe down towards the creek. It was a very tough job, but he started to do it. When he managed to do the diggings he found it still too high to move the canoe. That is why he measured the distance to water and this time decided to extend an artificial canal up to the canoe.  He started digging the land but he found it will take ten to twelve years for him to make the canal. In the end, in spite of his intention, he ended this attempt too and left the canoe.

Consequently, Crusoe found out that struggling with an exertion which is beyond our capacity is obvious foolishness. However, in the end, this unsuccessful experience provided him with contentment as he realised his life as a cumulative learning process. Thus, by applying the Holy Bible he achieved spirituality and further virtuous comprehension of his world which was completely different from what he used to think so far. This spiritual condition along with his extreme solitude led Crusoe to possess a unique point of view in which he learned he had nothing to do with the rest of the world.