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The Swiss Family Robinson
The answer to this can be found in Chapter 10 of The Swiss Family Robinson, at least in the version summarized by eNotes. In the version available on Gutenberg, the answer is to be found in...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
There was a large array of animals that were presented. Some of the animals included the great white shark, sea turtle, nile monitor, galapagos tortoise, green anaconda, green iguana, scarlet...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
The answer to this question can be found in Chapter 20 of The Swiss Family Robinson, at least by the way the chapters are numbered in our eNotes summary. Different versions are divided into...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
Storm is the family's buffalo. He is tied to the harpoon rope in Chapter 9 so that Fritz can bring ashore an enormous sturgeon that is eight feet long. In this chapter, the family sets up a fishing...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
The protagonists of The Swiss Family Robinson are, of course, the members of that family. There is a couple, and they have three sons with them. The sons are Fritz, Ernest, Jack, and Francis....
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The Swiss Family Robinson
In Chapter 4 of The Swiss Family Robinson, Ernest’s “bad habit” is the habit of being lazy. We see this about midway through the chapter. The Swiss Family Robinson is very much a book that...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss tells the tale of a family stranded on a tropical island near New Guinea, and how they work together to survive. The story is narrated by the father, who...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
A work ethic. The father is constantly in motion, always leading his family on to the next task. He chides his sons when they are lazy, and teases them for sleeping in. The mother too is...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
In The Swiss Family Robinson, the Robinson family has a feast of thanksgiving on the island as a way to celebrate the fact that they have managed to survive on the island for an entire year. This...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
In The Swiss Family Robinson, when the ship is in mortal danger from the storm, the wife of the family is initially afraid but she soon rallies and tries to calm and cheer her children. This can...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
In Swiss Family Robinson, the father, William, attempts to teach his sons lessons in a way that enables them to come to conclusions on their own. For example, in Chapter Two, the father educates...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
Although there is nothing specific mentioned in the novel about the location of the family's first campsite, there are some clues that lead one to believe they probably camped on the beach close to...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
On the day the family first land on the island, they do not eat first thing in the morning. They get up, have morning prayers, and then load themselves and some animals and supplies into the raft...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
The tone of a novel represents the author’s attitude toward the subject. In The Swiss Family Robinson, Johann Wyss presents a family who bravely and cheerfully accepts the adventures (and...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
In Chapter 12 of Swiss Family Robinson, the family is crossing plains that have become desertlike in the dry season. The family sees what appears to be a group of people on horseback galloping...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
The Swiss Family Robinson, written by Johann David Wyss, tells the story of a family who becomes stranded on an island after being shipwrecked. The family was traveling to Port Jackson, Australia,...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
We encounter this phrase early on in the first chapter. The ship the family is sailing on had been battered by a “raging storm” for seven full days. After a pummeling of such violence, the ship...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
In Chapter 4, the family have just landed safely on the beach after paddling in their makeshift boat from where the wreck of the ship is still wedged on the reef. They set up a tent, unload the...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
The father in The Swiss Family Robinson spends a lot of time instructing and training his sons. It is clear that he was in the habit of doing so well before the family was shipwrecked. From the...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
In Chapter 9, the father and Fritz make a journey to the wreck of the ship, which is still stuck out on the reef. They want to bring back the animals that they had left there. First, the family...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
In Chapter Three, the family successfully get themselves off the wreck of the ship and to the island. In Chapter Two, they had already spent the day making a raft with some large wooden tubs that...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
It is not hard to find instances of the father in The Swiss Family Robinson giving advice to his children. He does so in almost every chapter. Usually these bits of advice are short and are...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
Throughout the book the family tame numerous animal companions. The children form bonds with some of these, including the Jackal, Fangs. Over the course of the story, some of these animals have...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
In Chapter Four, Jack is attacked by a lobster. Wading in a tide pool, he is pinched on the leg by the lobster's sharp claws. Jack's father drives it off of him, then catches it live. Jack then...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
Fritz makes that suggestion in Chapter Five, while he and his father are exploring the island to see if they can locate any of the crew who might have survived. When the ship was wrecked during the...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
The main types of literary conflict are often listed as follows: Man against man / man against society Man against himself Man against Nature Man against machine Man against God / gods / fate The...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
I will answer in both English and Dutch (ik zal antwoorden in het Engels en Nederlands). English (Engels): The question asks when and where the The Swiss Family Robinson takes place. This story...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
The Swiss Family Robinson is a tale of shipwreck and adventure that begins when a family aboard a ship is caught in a storm and driven aground on a reef. The other passengers are all lost and the...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
The classic young reader's novel The Swiss Family Robinson was first written by Johann David Wyss, who was a Swiss clergyman. He had written it for his own family of four sons, just as the father...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
The central theme in the young reader's novel The Swiss Family Robinson, by Johann David Wyss and Johann Rudolf Wyss, is family. Though the Robinson family becomes stranded on an uninhabited...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
It sounds as though you have a good central focus in your essay and are thinking about how you can expand it by using different strategies to develop and support your central claim. There are two...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
I can definitely help you get started on your essay, but the writing needs to be yours. Plagiarism would be an issue, if I wrote something for you, and you took it as your own. Additionally,...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
In Chapter 3 of Johann David Wyss and Johann Rudolf Wyss's The Swiss Family Robinson, father and the eldest son Fritz go out to explore the island further. They venture upstream and find a place to...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
Manioc, or cassava, has a few uses. It looks similar to an elongated potato and grows underground (hence the root). In modern times it is currently being used for animal feed. As people continue...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
Chapter 4 of The Swiss Family Robinson is a very short chapter. It narrates the details of the second half of the family’s second day on the island. The family’s first day has been taken up...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
An assignment such as this—write an alternative ending to Johann David Wyss's classic novel The Swiss Family Robinson—requires some measure of creativity on the part of the student. Wyss's...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
In Chapter I of The Swiss Family Robinson, by Johann David Wyss and Johann Rudolf Wyss, the Robinson family has just been in a violent storm, causing the ship upon which they are traveling to run...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
The narrative of The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss and Johann Rudolf Wyss, opens dramatically in Chapter 1 with a description of the family on a ship which had been driven off course...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
If you remember that the family left Switzerland to begin a new life in another place, the ship contained what they needed to start that new life. However, when chased by pirates they crash landed...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
The novel The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss was originally published in 1813, but has appeared in many revised editions since its original publication. Its title derives from Daniel...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
The Swiss Family Robinson begins with their ship running aground during a storm and all of the sailors escaping the boat in rafts. The Robinson family were the only ones left on board after...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
In Johann David Wyss’s 1812 novel about a family stranded on an island, The Swiss Family Robinson, the author depicts an exceptionally close-knit group that shares in all manner of decisions. In...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
The Swiss Family Robinson is a story about a family that gets stranded on a remote island. They have to work together to make sure they survive. They grow to learn how to live on this island in...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
In The Swiss Family Robinson, the family suddenly finds themselves in peril. They are in a ship when a storm comes. The family discover that the captain and his mates have taken the rafts and left...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
The characters in this novel have been stranded on a seemingly uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean, near Southeast Asia. The island was evidently connected to the mainland at some point, because...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
"The Swiss Family Robinson" describes the shipwreck and survival of a Swedish family on an uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean. Knowing that rescue is not expected, they begin to explore the...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
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The Swiss Family Robinson
The problem is that the Robinson family gets shipwrecked and has to make a life for themselves on an island. One of the first problems the family has is to survive the shipwreck. Then they have to...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
The Swiss Family Robinson faced a multitude of problems on the island after being abandoned by the crew in the storm. The novel reads practically like a handbook on problem-solving. Problem #1:...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
The primary lessons learned by this family after ten years on the island involve God, nature, persistence, and the value of working together. Within a few hours of arrival at the island, the...
