Essay, Research Paper: Gulliver's Travels Book Review

The premise of this book is a man who loves to travel. Something always goes wrong, and
he ends up on an island. On the first island he ends up finding a civilization of people 1/12
the size of normal humans. After he leaves that island, he ends up on three more masses of
land that have a peculaiarity about the people. On Gulliver's next adventures, he meets
extremly large people, primitive people, and people on a flying island.

The character I most identified with was Gulliver. Gulliver is a character who is normal and
people always misunderstand him. In the island of the little people, Lilliput, they condemn
him for death by saving the queen's life by urinating on her palace. People blamed him for
things he did not do. I identify with him because I am often blamed for things I didn't do.
The character I most dislike was the dwarf in the land of large people, Brobdingnag. The
dwarf was almost forty feet tall (everthing in Brobdingnag is twelve times larger), but was
constantly angry at Gulliver. The Dwarf was jealous of Gulliver just because Gulliver was
accepted into Brobdingnag's social and political world.

The king of Lilliput reminds me of someone I know. The king was very obnoxious and
always pushed the littler people around just to appear strong. One of my "friends" of whose
name I won't mention, is very similar to the King of Lilliput. He is very obnoxious and
loud, and always pushes littler people around so he looks tough.

If I could be any character in this book I would be Gulliver. He gets to experience many
different adventures that no "normal" person ever got to experience. Gulliver gets to be an
enourmous creature, a minuscule person, a genius among primitave beasts, and on a floating
island.

Allot of the qualities of Gulliver and Glumaditch (Gulliver's best friend in Brogdingnag)
strike me as good qualities to have. Gulliver is an honest person basically never lies or does
anything wrong. He is misunderstood, but never for just cause. Glumaditch is also a very
caring person who is always loyal to Gulliver. She was the first to discover Gulliver in
Brogdingnag. She always makes sure that Gulliver has enough food, clean clothes, and is
generally happy.

After I read this book I felt very satisified. It was a very interesting story.

The only parts of this book that confused me was when they used old English lingo. Since
this book was writen in 1699, there were terms that I really could not understand. Besides
that I understood the book very well.

I don't feel there was an opinion expresed by an author throughout the book. The book was
a fantasy about a man going to many different islands with strange charactaristics about the
people. So, I really don't think there was any sort of opinion expresed.

I think the title of the book was appropriate. "Guliver's Travels" is the name of the book.
In the book Gulliver travels to many different islands and areas of the world. So, therefore,
the title is appropriate.

I would not change the ending of this book in any way. The book ends in a satisfying way.
Gulliver ends up in a good situation by the end of the story.

I think the author is a very imaginative person. Not many people would have been able to
come up with all of the different places Gulliver traveled to. I would not be able to tell you
about the authors morals or values are like, because the book had no material concerning
any ethical topics.

I do share some feelings of the characters in the book. Glumaditch, Gulliver's nurse, felt
that Gulliver should be treated as a real human, and not as a freak of nature. I also thought
Gulliver should have been treated as a real human.

I would like to read something else by this author. This book was very interesting and I
enjoyed reading this book. I enjoyed reading this book because it had the unrealistic
elements in it such as Gulliver being extremely little or extremely large.