Swiss Family Robinson By Johann David Wyss

Swiss Family Robinson

If you wanted to teach your children important lessons during time of trouble or need, what would you do? Maybe you would write a journal of your life and mistakes? Perhaps you may write a story about something that is important in life? Author Johann David Wyss wanted to write a story for his children to learn from and enjoy. This book he decided to write was named The Swiss Family Robinson, and it was published in 1812. Johann David Wyss's, The Swiss Family Robinson, provides a detailed way of how to use the natural world to improve man’s lot. This can be shown throughout the authors life, his own book, and the resemblance between the two.

Johann David Wyss was a Swiss pastor and author, born in 1743 (Johann Rudolf

The entertainment happens in the way the family helps one another and each and every one of the family members look for their own specific idea or helpful surviving method. For example, how the sons look for the more dangerous and a little more complex tasks. They also got their entertainment through running matches, archery, and donkey racing. (Johann David Wyss). The ship they had gotten shipwrecked has suffered horribly from the storm and needs repair. The golden rule of their divine Master, “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you?” Their duty here is to receive the Captain into their island, and to assist him in repairing the ship (Wyss 197). Working as a family was the key in a successful life on their island because they helped one another out, and looked out for each other just like a family. The adventure and moments the family went through in the book was something that would put a smile on his children’s face. All the nature and explicit detail on how to improve a mans lot, was good advice for his kids and reflected as self-help survival handbook. When the mom and brother went missing, all the sons declared that they would rather die then not find their mother or brother (Wyss 311). This tells me there family means a lot to each other and would not want to live without each

In Swiss Family Robinson each of the characters have their own role of helping their family to survive. The boys went on journeys together to find either supplies or different animal to cook and feed on. The sons loaded their guns, proceeding to a ridge of rocks which ran towards the sea, to get some muscles (Wyss 15). They also have a new animal almost every night for supper such as buffalo meat that was brought home one night. (Wyss 138). A real family thats sticks together will find anyway to help each other out and always be there for each other to take care of one another. In the 1700s their were also different roles on a ship depending on who you were. For example the sailor the voyage is a way of life with distinct social order. For a passenger they did not take as much responsibility or control compared to the sailor. Comparing this fact to the book, the four sons and Mr. Robinson had the harder job to go out and hunt for food while Mrs. Robinson and Emily cooked and cleaned. The Robinson family also had fish and beef just like the way people had it in the