Question

book review of gullivers travels term1

Answer 1

A storm blows up.The ship winds up in the Northwest of "Van Diemen's Land" – what we now call Tasmania, an area in the southeast of Australia.12 members of the ship's crew die and the rest are weakened by hard work and lack of food.High currents and rough seas make it hard for the crew to get from the ship's anchorage point to shore.So the Antelope sends six crew members, Gulliver included, in a small rowboat to go to shore.The boat capsizes and all of the six sailors except for Gulliver drown.In the water, Gulliver totally loses track of where he is, but he still manages eventually to find his way to a shore.Gulliver's feeling a bit sleepy from all of this exercise and the half-pint of brandy he drank onboard ship before getting into this rowboat, so he lies down to sleep.He wakes up at dawn after a lovely nap in the grass.Gulliver tries to stand up, but he can't move at all. He's stuck lying on his back.Gulliver notices that his arms and legs and even his long hair all appear to be tied down.He can't look right or left, so he has no idea what is happening, but he does feel something moving across his chest towards his chin.Gulliver turns his eyes down to look over his chin and he sees a tiny, tiny human being, no bigger than the length of Gulliver's finger.