Miguel Caballero

K. Shimabukuro

AP Literature

22 November 2011

Gulliver’s Travels Double Entry Journal “In This terrible agitation of mind I could not Gulliver realizes that in Lillput he was bigger for bear thinking of Lilliput, whose inhabitants thatn everyone else, but now on the new looked upon me as the greatest prodigy that island. He is small compared to the 60 foot tall ever appeared in the world...” (Swift 77) people on the island of Brobdingnag. “They observed by my teeth,which they Here the king’s three scholars examine viewed with great exactness, that I was a gulliver, since the island of Brobdirgnag have carnivorous animal; yet most quadrapeds being never seen a creature like Gulliver. The an overmatch for me.” (Swift 90) scholars then indicate that Gulliver is a freak

of nature. “From whence I cannot but conclude that our I feel that Gulliver wonders why no one else in geographers of Europe are in great error, by the world, have been to the islands between supposing nothing but sea between Japan and Japan and California. Since the inhabitants

Califorina: for it was ever my opinion,that have never seen a creature like Gulliver before. there must be a balnace of earth to counterposie the great continent of

Tartary.”(Swift 102) “And yet I have seen the moral of my own To me I feel tha Gulliver is trying to explain behavior very frequent in england since my how he is different from everyone else on the return... without the least title to birth, person, island of Brobdingnag. wit, or common sense, shall presume to look with importance...”(Swift 116) “He asked what methods were used to The king began to question how things are cultivate the minds and bodies of our young runned in europe,by Gulliver’s descriptions on nobility, and in what kind if business they how government worked. commonly spent the first and teachable part if their lives. (Swift 121) “This I humbly offered to his majesty, as a After Gulliver offerd to make the king small tribute of acknowledgement in return of gunpowder as a weapon the army could use. so many marks that I had received of his royal The king was horrified from what Gulliver was favour and protection.” (Swift 128) offering.