Approved Novel: Gullivers Travel

Approved Novel:  Gulliver’s Travels

·         I read Gulliver’s Travels for my third blog post and I found that it was a very good book.  It is first-person narrative story about a failed surgeon named Lemuel Gulliver.  Gulliver shows up on an island after being in a shipwreck and finds himself being held captive as prisoner to a race he has never seen before.  They are less than 6 inches tall.  I liked this book because it was very creative about how each quest he was in, there were different obstacles he had to find solutions to.  Like how he was charged with treason for not reducing the country to a province of Lilliput by the king.  But the kings friend helps Gulliver escape from Blefusco and Gulliver finds an abandoned ship.  Gulliver sails out, where he finds another ship that takes him back home.  This book was also great on how specific individuals may be good even where the race is bad—Gulliver finds a friend in each of his travels and, despite Gulliver's rejection and horror toward all Yahoos, is treated very well by the Portuguese captain, Dom Pedro, who returns him to England at the novel's end.  So every bad thing always turns into something good for Lemuel.  Jonathan Swift writes this story through first-person narrative which is the perfect use for the character Gulliver.  The only thing that was hard to understand was the language.  Some parts were difficult to understand but the other parts were easier to deal with.