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Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
adventurous
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
WeCan you believe this story will be 300 years old next year!? It was fascinating how much of it was still very relevant. Gulliver's Travels is a satire about English colonization, religion, politics, war and culture.
Many of us have seen this story represented in a cartoon or movie adaptation, but usually they only portray the first part of the book where Gulliver is stranded in Lilliput. The locality is miniscule in comparison to Gulliver's human size.
The next part brings Gulliver to a land where HE is miniscule and the locality is enormous. Another land has a floating island where royalty lives. Yet another is populated by horses.
Gulliver learns something in each of these lands...except he never seems to learn to stay home and stop getting stranded.
I'm glad to say I have read this, and I don't think I ever need to read it again.
Many of us have seen this story represented in a cartoon or movie adaptation, but usually they only portray the first part of the book where Gulliver is stranded in Lilliput. The locality is miniscule in comparison to Gulliver's human size.
The next part brings Gulliver to a land where HE is miniscule and the locality is enormous. Another land has a floating island where royalty lives. Yet another is populated by horses.
Gulliver learns something in each of these lands...except he never seems to learn to stay home and stop getting stranded.
I'm glad to say I have read this, and I don't think I ever need to read it again.