Friday ( Robinson Crusoe ) - wikipedia Friday ( Robinson Crusoe ) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( August 2015 ) `` Man Friday '' redirects here. For the 1975 film, see Man Friday ( film ). Robinson Crusoe and Man Friday by Carl Offterdinger Friday is one of the main characters of Daniel Defoe 's 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe. Robinson Crusoe names the man, with whom he can not at first communicate, Friday because they first meet on that day. The character is the source of the expression `` Man Friday '', used to describe a male personal assistant or servant, especially one who is particularly competent or loyal. Current usage also includes `` Girl Friday ''. Contents 1 Character 2 Film and television adaptations 3 Notes 4 References Character Robinson Crusoe spends twenty - eight years on an island off the coast of Venezuela with his talking parrot Poll, his pet dog, and a tame goat as his only companions. In his twenty - fourth year, he discovers that Carib cannibals occasionally use a desolate beach on the island to kill and eat their captives. Crusoe observes one of the Caribs, kept captive and about to be eaten, escape his captors. Crusoe ambushes two pursuers, and the others leave in their canoes without knowing what happened to their companions. The escaped captive bows in gratitude to Crusoe, who decides to employ him as a servant. He names him Friday after the weekday upon which the rescue takes place. Crusoe describes Friday as being a Native American, though very unlike the Indians of Brazil and Virginia. His religion involves the worship of a mountain god named Benamuckee, officiated over by high priests called Oowokakee. Crusoe learned a few of his native words that have been found in a Spanish - Térraba ( or Teribe ) dictionary, so Friday may have belonged to that tribe, also called the Naso people. Friday tolerates cannibalism, and even suggests eating the men Crusoe has killed. Crusoe teaches Friday the English language and converts him to Christianity. He tells him that cannibalism is wrong. Friday accompanies him in an ambush in which they save Friday 's father. Crusoe returns to England twenty - eight years after being shipwrecked on the island, and four years after rescuing Friday. Friday 's father goes with a Spanish castaway to the mainland to retrieve fourteen other Spanish castaways, but Crusoe and Friday depart the island before they return. Friday accompanies Crusoe home to England, and is his companion in the sequel The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, in which Friday is killed in a sea battle. In Jules Verne 's L'École des Robinsons ( 1882 ), the castaways rescue an African Negro on their island who says his name is Carefinotu. T. Artelett proposes to call him Mercredi ( `` Wednesday '' ), `` as it is always done in the islands with Robinsons, '' but his master Godfrey prefers to keep the original name. Film and television adaptations The 1935 Mickey Mouse cartoon Mickey 's Man Friday features Mickey as Crusoe, with Friday and other islanders as humanized monkey characters. The 1935 Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon Robinson Crusoe Isle features Oswald applying for a job as Robinson Crusoe 's `` man Friday. '' Crusoe 's twelve previous Fridays have been eaten by cannibals, making Oswald `` Friday the 13th. '' In Luis Buñuel 's 1954 film Robinson Crusoe, Jaime Fernández played Friday alongside Dan O'Herlihy as Crusoe. In the 1990s animated series Robinson Sucroe, a parody of Robinson Crusoe, the island Sucroe lands on is heavily populated by friendly natives, all of whom are named after days of the week and times of day ( e.g. `` Tuesday Dawn '' ) as a reference to Friday. The 1964 film Robinson Crusoe on Mars recasts the Robinson Crusoe story as a space adventure. Victor Lundin played the rescued companion of Crusoe figure Commander Christopher Draper ( Paul Mantee ), who dubs him `` Friday '' in reference to the novel. Man Friday, a 1975 British film, retold the story from Man Friday 's point of view. It starred Richard Roundtree as Man Friday and Peter O'Toole as Crusoe. In the 1981 French TV movie Vendredi ou la Vie sauvage ( fr ), Friday was played by Gene Anthony Ray. In the 1997 film version of Robinson Crusoe, William Takaku played Friday to Pierce Brosnan 's Crusoe. In the 2008 American TV series Crusoe, Friday was played by Tongayi Chirisa. Notes References Jump up ^ L'École des Robinsons, chapter 18, Jules Verne. Jump up ^ William Takaku on IMDB Daniel Defoe 's Robinson Crusoe Characters Friday Sequel novels The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Films Robinson Crusoe ( 1902 ) The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe ( 1922 ) Robinson Crusoe ( 1927 ) Robinson Crusoe ( 1947 ) Robinson Crusoe ( 1954 ) Robinson Crusoe ( 1974 ) Crusoe ( 1989 ) Robinson Crusoe ( 1997 ) Film variations Miss Robin Crusoe ( 1954 ) Robinson Crusoe on Mars ( 1964 ) Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. ( 1966 ) Man Friday ( 1975 ) Mr. Robinson ( 1976 ) Shipwrecked ( 1990 ) The Wild Life ( 2016 ) Television The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe ( 1964 ) Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, a Sailor from York ( 1982 ) Robinson Sucroe ( 1994 ) Crusoe ( 2008 ) Literature Friday, or, The Other Island Canadian Crusoes Foe Other Alexander Selkirk Robinson Crusoe Island Robinsonade Robinson Crusoé Robinson Crusoe economy Robinson Crusoes of Warsaw Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Friday_(Robinson_Crusoe)&oldid=785009708 '' Categories : Characters in British novels of the 18th century Fictional servants Fictional cannibals Sidekicks in literature Robinson Crusoe Hidden categories : Articles needing additional references from August 2015 All articles needing additional references Interlanguage link template link number Talk Contents About Wikipedia Čeština Eesti Esperanto Slovenčina Edit links This page was last edited on 11 June 2017, at 03 : 56. 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Question: who did robinson crusoe meet on the island
Answer: Friday