The Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
The novel begins with Gulliver telling the story of his life, beginning with his family history. He is born to a family in Nottinghamshire, the third of five sons. His father send him to Emanuel College in Cambridge at fourteen years old, his family was too poor to keep him there, so he was sent to London. Under a man named James Bates, he learns mathematics and navigation with the hope of traveling.
Soon he was recommended by his master Mr. Bates, to be a surgeon aboard a ship called the Swallow for three years. Afterward, he settles in London, working as a doctor, and marries a woman named Mary Burton. His business begins to fail when his master Bates dies. Then he go to sea again and travels. He planned to return home and to accept one last job on a ship called the Antelope. When he was in East Indies, the Antelope encounters a massive storm and twelve of his crewmen die. He and six of the crewmembers were on a small rowboat to escape. But then the rowboat capsizes, and he loses track of his companions. They were never seen again. Gulliver, however, swims safely to shore.
He lies down on the grass to rest, and soon he falls asleep. When he wakes up, he finds that his arms, legs, and long hair have been tied to the ground with threads. The only thing he could do was look up, but the bright sun prevents him from seeing anything. He looks down and saw a six-inch-tall human carrying a bow and arrow. He was shocked. They were more little people climb onto his body. He shouts loudly, and frightening the little people away. They return, however, and one of the little men cries out. Gulliver struggles to get loose and finally succeeds in breaking the strings binding his left arm. He loosens the ropes tying his hair so he can turn to the left. In response, the little people fire a volley of arrows into his hand and violently attack his body and face. He decides that the safest thing to do is to lie still until nightfall. Then the little people build a stage next to Gulliver about a foot and a half off the ground. One of them climbs onto him and makes a speech in a language that he does not understand. Then they both founded out that neither one of them understand each other. He was hungry and he indicates that he is hungry, and the little people bring him baskets of meat. Tempted to pick up forty or fifty of the little people and throw them against the ground, but he decides that he has made them a promise of goodwill and is grateful for their hospitality. He is also struck by their bravery, because they climb onto his body despite his great size.
We were quite amazed when we read the novel “The Gulliver’s Travels”, because it was very different form was we had expected. We watch the movie “Gulliver’s Travels” directed by Rob Letterman and it was completely