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LEVEL 2 Teacher’s notes Teacher Support Programme The Mysterious Island Jules Verne sent to the bottom. Finally, when the boy, Herbert, falls EASYSTARTS sick, a medicine appears by his bed and so he is saved. But their mysterious helper suddenly needs help of his own. He tells them how to find him – at the bottom of LEVEL 2 the deep well in their cave house. He is no other than Captain Nemo, anti-hero of another Jules Verne story, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. He is at the end LEVEL 3 of his life and he wants the men to take his riches and scuttle his submarine, Nautilus, after his death, with him on board. The friends spend a little longer on the island LEVEL 4 but are eventually rescued by a British survey ship, free at last to start or return to families, and write or tell of their adventures and their mysterious helper. About the author LEVEL 5 Chapters 1–3: Four men, a boy and a dog manage to Jules Verne (1828–1905) is sometimes considered to be escape the U.S. Civil War in a balloon on the very same the father of science fiction. At the age of 34, he wrote day a strong wind causes great damage all around the the adventure story Five Weeks in a Balloon which was world. By the time they see land again, one of them, Cyrus LEVEL 6 quickly followed by the science fiction classic Journey to Smith, and his dog fall into the water. The other three the Centre of the Earth, published in 1864. Verne’s skill was men and the boy reach an island hoping Cyrus will join to weave an exciting adventure story around a fantastical them soon. The first island they reach is too small, so they idea which was supported by scientific knowledge or swim to a nearby island. They set out to find shelter and speculation. to see if Cyrus and his dog have made their way to the Verne was fascinated by exploration – he even wrote a island. The following morning Top, the dog, finds them history of exploration from Phoenician times to the and takes them to the cave where Cyrus lies asleep. He mid-19th century. In all his famous works, his characters feels weak because he has had to swim hard to reach the use the latest ‘inventions’ to explore the moon, the ocean shore. What is a real mystery is how, being so weak, he depths or the centre of the earth. managed to get to the place where the others find him. Amongst the inventions which he anticipated in his Chapters 4–7: The four men and the boy quickly get writings are flights into outer space, submarines, organized to look for whatever they need to survive: at helicopters, air conditioning, guided missiles and motion the beginning they eat eggs, fish and fruit from the trees. pictures. His other science fiction works include From the Then Pencroft, the seaman, makes bows and they add Earth to the Moon and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the birds to their menu. One day Spillet, the journalist, writes Sea, in which Captain Nemo first appears. out a list of the things which would make life easier, for example matches to start a fire in case the one they have Summary made goes out. To their surprise, a month later, another When a balloon escaping from Richmond, Virginia, during mysterious event happens: they find a big box full of the the Civil War, is blown off course, comes down on the things that were on the list. This makes life easier: they can Pacific Ocean. One of its occupants, Cyrus Smith, falls or all go away because now they have matches to light the jumps off into the sea with his dog. The other occupants, fire. So the next morning they get as far south as a rock three men and a boy, jump down on a beach. Cyrus Smith wall, and inside the rock they find a great cave. This one is manages to make it to shore but has no idea how he has better because it is clean and dry and a river runs through reached a cave half a mile from the sea. it. That night there is a storm on the island and when they go back to the beach cave they find nothing left but the Other mysterious things happen on the uninhabited box. They decide to move to the cave in the rock wall. island. After the men have made a list of things they need, Life in Cave House, their new home, is very pleasant a large box appears on the beach and inside are all the indeed and they all get on well. things they have listed. When pirates come to disturb them in their new cave house, their ship is torpedoed and pearsonenglishreaders.com © Pearson Education Limited 2015 The Mysterious Island - Teacher’s notes 1 of 3 LEVEL 2 Teacher’s notes Teacher Support Programme The Mysterious Island Chapters 8–10: One evening the men see a pirate ship more scientific form – the torpedoing of the pirates’ ship EASYSTARTS come near the beach. Pencroft goes to the ship secretly. – and we move from mysticism to pure adventure. He discovers that there are fifty pirates and they have There is one final twist. Captain Nemo is their helper. guns. They shoot twice at the cave but a great wave Although his very name means nobody in Latin, he is quite breaks and sinks the ship. The men take several things LEVEL 2 definitely somebody in this story – a person with a past from the ship and some time later Nab finds a strange fixed firmly in the recent history of the world for Verne’s object on the beach. It is part of a torpedo. They wonder readers. Most Frenchmen probably resented the breadth who is helping them. One day Herbert falls ill and a bottle LEVEL 3 and influence of the British empire, but it is debatable of medicine mysteriously appears on the table. He gets how much the average Frenchman of 1875 cared about better soon. Months later, they see a note on the table: the Indian Mutiny of 1857, brutally put down by Britain. their helper wants them to see him because he is dying. LEVEL 4 However, Verne clearly felt that these events gave Nemo Chapters 11–13: The men go down into a bigger cave good reason for his behaviour. and find a boat, but they do not know where to go. Then Pirates: As many colonies were thousands of miles from a white light shines on a big object in the water, which LEVEL 5 Europe, European monarchs could not afford to send Cyrus recognizes as Captain Nemo’s submarine, Nautilus. their fleets to control the seas around them. Pirates Nemo is an old dying man. He explains he is Indian and patrolled the seas to steal and to mercilessly harass anyone hates the British because they took India from its people. who passed by. LEVEL 6 He gives Cyrus a box with money and trusts him to use it well. They have dinner together before doing as Nemo Historical events: The Indian Rebellion of 1857 (or instructs. They must let the Nautilus sink when he dies, Sepoy rebellion), which some have seen as the first and take the money and the small boat with them. They Indian war of independence, was a period of armed use the boat to fish and explore until they are finally uprisings against colonial authority of the British East India rescued by a ship. They go back to America to begin a Company in India. This rebellion brought about the end of new life. the East India Company’s rule in India and the beginning of the British Raj, the 90 years during which the UK directly The Original Text ruled the Indian subcontinent, although some states The Mysterious Island is in fact a science fiction / fantasy retained nominal independence under their respective rendition of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, which was Rajas, or kings. published in 1719. Verne wrote The Mysterious Island in 1872 and it was published two years later. Crusoe really Discussion activities launched an entire genre centred around people finding Chapters 1–3 themselves marooned on dangerous islands and ultimately Before reading making the best of it. 1 Discuss: An island Ask students to work in groups and to think of Background and themes possible ways in which an island can be mysterious. Get ideas from each group. The Mysterious Island turns out to be a sequel to Twenty 2 Discuss: Have students discuss possible ways in which Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, but this only becomes one can reach an island: by boat, by ship, etc. evident at the end of the story. Up until the point where 3 Write: Ask students to continue to work in groups Captain Nemo reveals himself, it is the tale of a group and to look at the list of words at the back of the book in section 2 of the ‘Before You Read’ Activities of castaways, very much in the mould of Robinson (Chapters 1–3). They must write a short story about Crusoe. The big difference is that, in this case, there is a a mysterious island which includes all those words. mysterious helper. At first, this help has an almost mystical quality. Is Verne writing about the way God helps people While reading 4 Discuss: Flying a balloon in trouble? A man is carried to safety as if by magic.
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