Title: GULLIVER’S TRAVELS
Author: JONATHAN SWIFT
Publisher (level): OXFORD4
Summary:
First story, the ship Gulliver rode was hit by a violent storm. He managed to get the island in which the people were all small. He lived there about a year and made some achievements for the state named Lilliput. But some King’s officials hated him and persuade the King that he was danger to Lilliput. Gulliver who should escape from Lilliput left Lilliput with some small animals. When he arrived home, he earned quite a lot of money by showing his Lilliputian animals to people.

Second story, Gulliver reached the island where everything was all big. The island’ name was Brobdingnag. One giant picked him up and took Gulliver home. He earned much money by showing Gulliver and sold Gulliver for the Queen of Brobdingnag. Gulliver stayed at palace about two years. When he went to the coast, he was caught by a bird and fell down to the sea. Luckily, he was picked up by an English ship and arrived home. His wife made him promise never to go to adventure.

But Gulliver started his next voyage soon. He went to the flying island named Laputa accidentally. He stayed Laputa for some time and decided to travel from Balnibarbi to the island of Luggnagg and then home to England . On the way to Luggnagg , he visited Glubbdubdrib which means the island of magicians. The President could call a ghost. It could be anyone from the beginning of the world up to the present day. Gulliver learned many real histories from ghost. He went to Luggnagg after that and finally, he returned home after an interval of five years.

In the last story, Gulliver went to the country of the Houyhnhnms which controlled by horses. As he spent some days in Houyhnhnms , He came to think that “why do we humans so often fight wars and tell lies?” , “peace and truth began to seem more important than making war or making money.” He lived there for a year and wanted to spend the rest of him life there but he had to leave Houyhnhnms and came back to their home. After this travel , he hated human beings. He thought there is no hope for human beings.

Evaluation: 5stars
It was the first time to read stories of Gulliver . Stories are all interesting . I can imagine many terrible situations which are described in this story . I was excited while I was reading this book. I was also surprised when the flying island named Laputa appears in this book . I know the Japanese animation movie about Laputa so I think there is some relation between Laputa in this book and Laputa in the movie.