Part IV: Voyage to Houyhnhnm

     In this part Gulliver has come back to his pregnant wife and stayed for 5 months until he sets sail again on the Adventure encountering many of his men falling to disease and he recruits as he travels. His men then come up with a mutiny and he is thrown of the boat and washes up on land and is greeted by animals. Ugly animals began to form around him and he flee's and hears a horse scare away the creatures. The horse begins to communicate with him and then a second comes to discuss with the horse and Gulliver disoriented believes they are magicians disguised as horses and learns that they are from Yahoo and Gulliver is on the isle of Houyhnhnm. Gulliver is then taken to a ranch and is greeted with open arms (hooves) and a horse will teach him the language and how to pronounce it right. Gulliver then learns the language and the horses are impressed with his intellect and curiosity and after three months he can fully communicate. Gulliver explains the ways of how horses are used in England and the horses feel disrespected on how they are used and explain what they do in a nutshell. In chapter five over the course of two years, Gulliver describes the state of affairs in Europe, speaking to his Houyhnhnm master about the English Revolution and the war with France. He is asked to explain the causes of war, and he does his best to provide reasons. He is also asked to speak of law and the justice system, which he does in some detail. As well Gulliver talks about the currency and food humans eat to the horses in a continuation for chapter 6. And as well he talks about the jobs that humans do in Europe and the discussion lasts for awhile. Gulliver in chapter seven develops a liking to the mass intellect of the Houyhnhnm's and does not think of going back to human kind and compares the Yahoo's, the creatures Gulliver was surrounded by in the beginning as humans. He then talks with the Yahoo's and finds they are malicious yet cowardly and have vast similarities as told by the horses to humans.

     Gulliver visits the Grand Assembly and the Houyhnhnm's are trying to figure out ways to get rid of the Yahoo's and come to a decision to castrate them and make them breed no longer. Gulliver is as well amazed at that They create excellent poetry, have a sound knowledge of medicinal herbs, build simple houses, and usually live about seventy or seventy-five years, dying of old age. They feel no sorrow about death, accepting it as a routine element of life. They have no writing system and no word to express anything evil. All in all Gulliver is quite comfortable with the way the Houyhnhnm's treat him and sets out to find a island to live on and is then struck by an arrow in his travels and meets a guy named Don Pedro who laughs at his language and is forced back to England. I did not see this coming and i was surprised but he was sent back when he wanted to live his life away from Europe. But, he did have a wife and others that thought he was pronounced dead and are happy to see him once more. I found this to be a good book but in some cases not to be a much of a satire but some aspects of one. It was good and I encourage people to read all 318 pages of this good satire book.

Part III: A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan

Gulliver is asked again to go out to sea for two months. During the trip they are attacked by Japanese pyrates and among the group he gets a glimpse of a Dutch voice. They set them free and Gulliver finds an island called Laputa which has an upper land and lower connected together by a chain and the sun was obscure. Gulliver is immediately surrounded by people and notices that they are all quite odd. Their heads are all tilted to one side or the other, with one eye turned inward and the other looking up. Their clothes are adorned with images of celestial bodies and musical instruments. And they wander off in thoughts a lot. He meets the King and eventually learns a few sentences in their language. Their language is along the lines of mathematical and musical and Gulliver finds it srange. The land is 10,000 acres long and in the center there is a astronmer cave. They try to get measurements to make the magnetic pull to go so low that it will kill the king and more. The king is not allowed to leave his family nor the island. Gulliver feels neglected by the Laputans with their vast knowledge on mathematics and music but he finds a Laputan who is looked down upon and is said to have no ear for music. Gulliver and Munodi, the looked down upon fellow, both travel to a town were they find a population of poorly dressed people. They then travel to Munodi's country house and Munodi explains the history of Laputans. Gulliver visits a academy and meets a man who is interested in sunbeams. The professor has a room full of boys working on a machine on the other side of the academy. The project was a machine that produced random words and phrases.

Gulliver then visits the professor who is studying issues of the government. One claims that women should be taxed according to their beauty and skill at dressing, and another claims that conspiracies against the government could be discovered by studying the excrement of subjects. Gulliver grows tired of the academy and begins to yearn for a return to England. Gulliver tries to travel to Luggnagg, but he finds no ship available. Since he has to wait a month, he is advised to take a trip to Glubbdubdrib, the island of magicians. Gulliver visits the governor of Glubbdubdrib, and he finds that servants who appear and disappear like spirits attend the governor. The governor tells Gulliver that he has the power to call up any shade he would like. Gulliver chooses Alexander the Great, who assures him that he died not from poison but from excessive drinking. He then sees the Carthaginian general Hannibal and the Roman leaders Caesar, Pompey, and Brutus. Gulliver then returns to Luggnagg, where he is confined despite his desire to return to England. He is ordered to appear at the king’s court and is given lodging and an allowance. He learns that subjects are expected to lick the floor as they approach the king, and that the king sometimes gets rid of opponents in the court by coating the floor with poison. Gulliver finally is able to depart from Luggnag and arrives safely at Japan. He finds a passage on a Dutch ship and pretends to be a Holland fellow and arrives safely at Amsterdam and finds his family in good health again.

Part Two: A Voyage to Brobdingnag

After Gulliver returns to England he sets out with a crew on the Adventure. A monsoon blows them off course and land on a unknown land mass. He encounters all the objects to be forty foot high on average and is almost stepped on a farmer of the land. The farmer takes him in and the farmers daughter takes care of him. The farmer then tries to use him as entertainment. They travel to see the Queen of Brobdingnag and to show how Gulliver can interact with the townsfolk. The Queen buys Gulliver for 1,000$ and Glumdalclitch is as well included in the deal to taker care of him under her order and are given the treatment of royality and Gulliver is quite satisfied. The King and Gulliver both talk about politics and the King is amused about how they run things in Europe. Gulliver explains the landscape of Brobdingnag and it spans 6,000 km and has mountains surronding the land. Gulliver is carried around in a special box and all the people crowd around him in amazement. Gulliver as well has many problems even though he likes Brobdingnag but his size doesn't really help him and a problem arises in a form of a monkey and he becomes weak from the fight and is bed ridden for two weeks and the monkey was killed and any other monkey that came into the palace would be killed or banished. Gulliver finds the people of Brobdingnag are generally ignorant and poorly educated towards the city and themselves. As well thinks down towards them and the King of Brobdingnag. Gulliver wants his freedom and sets up deals with the King about going on a search for a wife so he can propograte. While on the search Gulliver and Glumdalclitch both fall ill and stumble upon people the same size as him and can relate. Gulliver begins to recover on the ship, and he tries to tell the sailors the story of his recent journey. He shows them things he saved from Brobdingnag, like his comb and a tooth pulled from a footman. He has trouble adjusting to the sailors’ small size, and he finds himself shouting all the time. When he reaches home, it takes him some time to grow accustomed to his old life, and his wife asks him to never go to sea again. This story has taken a turn I really enjoyed this part out of the first. It has really gotten good and not too much description in it as the first part of the book. I look forward to reading Part III out of IV.

   

Glumdalclitch  (9 year old nurse): Left                        
- Her Father the Farmer:  Right

Part One of Blog

     The book I am reading is Gulliver's Travels by Johnathon Swift. The book was published in 1700's and is 318 pages long. I will be doing a four part blog of every 80 pages. This is my first entry of the blog. Gulliver has shipwrecked on the island of Lilliput. He eventually gets tired and decides to fall asleep on the ground, then wakes up to find himself tied down. He struggles and get his hands free then unties his hair bonds eventually stopping because of the soldiers volleying arrows at him. Well personally I thought it was hard to get into and it conviently has parts that can help with the blog entries.

     It gets better as it goes on and Gulliver really gets to enjoy Lilliput and asks Reldresal and others about the history of war between Lilliput and Blefuscu and is told to devise a plan to help fight them off from attacks. His plan is a harpoon style contraption that surprises many Blefuscu peopl making some run before he ties the ships together and bring them back to Lilliput and is greeted as a hero. Gulliver eventually learns more on Lilliput and becomes friends with many which I thought was cool. The Lilliputians are well educated as he describes and the customs of them such as death and law. Gulliver is then sentenced to treason between the two and is to be publicaly urnation from not following the emperors orders. I do not really understand the dialect and style all that much and it has been very descriptive rather than a satire. I do have some second thoughts but it has been nice in the word play aspect but can be improved. It was made in the 1700's which i have to take into consideration. It has been good to this point and I look forward to reading more and hoping it will flow better and get more adventurous and humorous.

Audio Book for Chapter One

About Myself (Little Late Entry)

I forgot to introduce myself in the first place. I am a mature and responsible 16 year old boy from Fort Erie Ontario. I am very patriotic to my country and am fun to be around. My characteristics are: comedic, mature, out-going (sometimes), shy (sometimes), intersted, curious, hands on, and well rounded. My interests are video games, books, swimming, dodgeball, baseball, animals, history, and music.

Other Pieces Swift Published

Swift also published : A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, Draiper's Letters, The Battle of the Books, An Arugument Against Abolishing Christianity, and A Tale of a Tub. Most notable pieces.

About the Author/ Book

Gulliver's Travels was published in 1726 by Johnathan Swift. He originated from Ireland and is Anglo- Irish, satirist, essayist, and political pamphleteer.