Gulliver’s Travels

By Jonathan Swift

Main Character – Lemuel Gulliver

Setting – many unknown lands – Lilliput, Broddingdan, Laputa, Country of the Houyhnhnms

Time – Late 1600’s

Lemuel Gulliver took a job as a ship’s surgeon to explore the world.  There was a terrible storm and he shipwrecked on a strange island, Lilliput.  He woke up tied to the ground by little people called Lilliputians.

Gulliver’s next voyage was to  Broddingdan.  The land of the Giants.  He was sold to the Queen.  He is tiny compared to everything.

Next, he travels to a floating island called Laputa.  There the people are into math and music.  They make strange scientific theories.

Next, Gulliver travels to the Country of the Houyhnhnms.  It is a land where the horses rule and hairy looking people, called yahoos, are treated like animals.

At the end of his journeys, it was hard for him to accept life as it was at home.  He had seen so much and learned so much.