Gulliver's Travels Book Review

Gulliver's Travels Book Review

The premise of this book is a man who loves to travel.   Something always goes wrong, and
he ends up on an island.   On the first island he ends up finding a civilization of people 1/12
the size of normal humans.   After he leaves that island, he ends up on three more masses of
land that have a peculaiarity about the people.   On Gulliver’s next adventures, he meets
extremly large people, primitive people, and people on a flying island.

The character I most identified with was Gulliver.   Gulliver is a character who is normal and
people always misunderstand him.   In the island of the little people, Lilliput, they condemn
him for death by saving the queen’s life by urinating on her palace.   People blamed him for
things he did not do.   I identify with him because I am often blamed for things I didn’t do.
The character I most dislike was the dwarf in the land of large people, Brobdingnag.   The
dwarf was almost forty feet tall (everthing in Brobdingnag is twelve times larger), but was
constantly angry at Gulliver.   The Dwarf was jealous of Gulliver just because Gulliver was
accepted into Brobdingnag’s social and political world.

The king of Lilliput reminds me of someone I know.   The king was very obnoxious and
always pushed the littler people around just to appear strong.   One of my “friends” of whose
name I won’t mention, is very similar to the King of Lilliput.   He is very obnoxious and
loud, and always pushes littler people around so he looks tough.  

If I could be any character in this book I would be Gulliver.   He gets to experience many
different adventures that no “normal” person ever got to experience. Gulliver gets to be an
enourmous creature, a minuscule person, a genius among primitave beasts, and on a floating
island.

Allot of the qualities of Gulliver and Glumaditch (Gulliver’s best friend in Brogdingnag)
strike me as good qualities to have.   Gulliver is an honest person basically never lies or does
anything wrong. He is...