Question

Swiss family Robinson chapter 6 summary when Elizabeth was climbing down the stairs?​

Answer 1

The Swiss Family Robinson (German: Der Schweizerische Robinson) is a novel by Johann David Wyss, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family of immigrants whose ship en route to Port Jackson, Australia, goes off course and is shipwrecked in the East Indies.

The Swiss Family Robinson

Frontispiece from the 1851 American edition by John Gilbert

AuthorJohann David WyssOriginal titleDer Schweizerische RobinsonIllustratorJohann Emmanuel WyssCountrySwitzerlandLanguageGermanGenreAdventure fictionPublisherJohann Rudolph Wyss (the author's son)

Publication date

1812Media typePrint (Hardcover and paperback)Pages323

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HistoryEdit

Written by Swiss pastor Johann David Wyss, edited by his son Johann Rudolf Wyss and illustrated by another son, Johann Emmanuel Wyss, the novel was intended to teach his four sons about family values, good husbandry, the uses of the natural world and self-reliance. Wyss' attitude towards its education is in line with the teachings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and many chapters involve Christian-oriented moral lessons such as frugality, husbandry, acceptance, and cooperation.[1]

Wyss presents adventures as lessons in natural history and physical science. This resembles other educational books for young ones published about the same time. These include Charlotte Turner Smith's Rural Walks: in Dialogues intended for the use of Young Persons (1795), Rambles Farther: A continuation of Rural Walks (1796), A Natural History of Birds, intended chiefly for young persons (1807). But Wyss' novel is also modeled after Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, an adventure story about a shipwrecked sailor first published in 1719 and the source of the "Robinson" in the title "Swiss Family Robinson".[1]

The book presents a geographically impossible array of large mammals and plants that probably could never have existed together on a single island, for the children's education, nourishment, clothing and convenience.

Over the years there have been many versions of the story with episodes added, changed, or deleted. Perhaps the best-known English version is by William H. G. Kingston, first published in 1879.[1] It is based on Isabelle de Montolieu's 1813 French adaptation and 1824 continuation (from chapter 37) Le Robinson suisse, ou, Journal d'un père de famille, naufragé avec ses enfants in which were added further adventures of Fritz, Franz, Ernest, and Jack.[1] Other English editions that claim to include the whole of the Wyss-Montolieu narrative are by W. H. Davenport Adams (1869–1910) and Mrs H. B. Paull (1879). As Carpenter and Prichard write in The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (Oxford, 1995), "with all the expansions and contractions over the past two centuries (this includes a long history of abridgments, condensations, Christianizing, and Disney products), Wyss's original narrative has long since been obscured."[1] The closest English translation to the original is William Godwin's 1816 translation, reprinted by Penguin Classics.[2]

Although movie and television adaptations typically name the family "Robinson", it is not a Swiss name. The German title translates as The Swiss Robinson which identifies the novel as part of the Robinsonade genre, rather than a story about a family named Robins

dishes. Initially they construct a treehouse, but as time passes (and after Elizabeth is injured climbing the stairs down from it), they settle in a more permanent dwelling in part of a cave. Fritz rescues a young Englishwoman (Jenny Montrose) shipwrecked elsewhere on their island.

The book covers more than ten years. William and older boys explore various environments and develop homes and gardens in various sites about the island. In the end, the father wonders if they will ever again see the rest of humanity. Eventually a British ship that is in search of Jenny Montrose anchors near the island and is discovered by the family. The captain is given the journal containing the story of their life on the island which is eventually published. Several members of the family choose to continue to live tranquilly on their island while several of them return to Europe with the British.

Answer 2

Answer:

• The Swiss Family Robinson, by Johann David Wyss, was originally published in 1812 and tells the story of a Swiss family of immigrants who are shipwrecked in the East Indies while traveling to Port Jackson, Australia.
• The ship's crew is lost, but the family and many domestic animals survive. Before being rescued, they make their way to the coast and establish a community.
• Some of them choose to forgo rescue and stay on the island.
• The Swiss Family Robinson is a well-known adventure story about a daring family that must cooperate to live in their new home on a barren island.

Explanation:

Chapter 6 Summary

• Elizabeth tells her husband that she wants to transfer the family somewhere safer the morning after he gets back from the shipwreck.
• In addition to being exposed, their present camp is also scorching hot and dry.
• She informs him that she and her sons crossed the river the day before and explored the pleasanter, forested country on the other side.
• They felt comfortable in the shade of the trees, and if they constructed a home high up one of the big trees, they would be protected from jackals.
• She describes a tree with a trunk that is almost forty feet in diameter that would be ideal for the project. The limbs are ideal platforms for a building since they are quite long and stick straight out from the trunk.
• They may go bird hunting for sustenance in the vast fields of tall grasses that surround the tree grove.
• They had found turtle eggs on the neighboring beach, which would give them much-needed protein.
• According to Elizabeth, the more time she and her sons spent in the neighborhood, the more endearing and enchanting everything seemed. She would feel "absolutely safe and happy" if they could settle there.
• Jack requested her to assist him in making collars for their pets while they were there. One of the deceased jackals had been skinned by Jack, who then dried it in the sun so that it would develop into leather.
• His plan was to create collars with embedded spikes that protruded to prevent jackals and other animals from tearing at the dogs' throats while they were wearing them.
• Their hands and arms could now be used to carry their foraged supplies because Jack had enough leather left over to build belts to carry their firearms in.
• Large containers that had to have floated away from the sunken ship were discovered when Elizabeth and her sons returned to the shore. They hauled these out of the sea since they were too heavy to carry and put them high on the sand to dry.
• Elizabeth no longer had to bother about feeding the dogs when they were seen eating crabs they had captured on their own.
• Elizabeth begs her husband to think about relocating to the other side of the river as she draws to a conclusion her account of her exploits. Her spouse muses about the idea and teases her about how much simpler living in a tree would be if they all had wings.

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