3. What was weird about Phileas Fogg?
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Answer:
good morning
Explanation:
The protagonist of the novel. Phileas Fogg is a wealthy, eccentric, solitary English gentleman who is about forty years old and lives in Saville Row, London. With a strange obsession with routine and punctuality, and no close relationships, Fogg is a mystery to those around him and spends all of his time gambling and reading newspapers at the Reform Club social organization. The same day that he hires a new servant, Jean Passepartout, Fogg makes an impulsive wager of £20,000 with his fellow whist players that he can travel around the world in eighty days—leaving that night, October 21st, 1872 at 8:45 P.M, and arriving back on December 21st at 8:45 P.M. He brings Passepartout with him on his journey, and they travel to Egypt, India, China, Japan, the United States, and back to England in order to traverse all 360 degrees of the globe. Unbeknownst to Fogg, his wealth, odd habits, and the reckless wager have made him the prime suspect of a recent bank robbery, and he is being trailed across the world by Detective Fix from the Scotland Yard. Throughout the trip, Fogg calmly faces and solves myriad obstacles and delays (usually with money) and forms close relationships with Passepartout and the other companions he meets by chance along the way—particularly Aouda, a young woman they save from being sacrificed in India, who gradually falls in love with Fogg as she is brought along on the adventure. When they finally make it back to England on the last day of the wager, Fix arrests Fogg, a delay that prevents him from winning the bet even after the real bank robber is apprehended and he is released. Thanks to Passepartout, however, they realize the next day that they had failed to factor the International Date Line into their meticulous calculations of time—it is Saturday rather than Sunday, and Fogg still has ten minutes to win the wager. He makes it to the Reform Club three seconds before 8:45 and successfully completes the bet. The story ends with the marriage of Fogg and Aouda, a happy union that Fogg believes made his adventure worth it.