![]() ![]() Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work ![]() An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context A chronology of the author's life and work A concise introduction that gives readers important background information He also encounters Yahoos, filthy bestial creatures who resemble humans. The fourth and final voyage takes him to the home of the Houyhnhnms, gentle horses who rule the land. It is a world of illusion and distorted values. The people plan and plot as their country lies in ruins. The flying island of Laputa is the scene of his next voyage. In Brobdingnag, the tables are reversed and he is the tiny person in a land of giants where he is exhibited as a curiosity at markets and fairs. His travels take him to Lilliput where he is a giant observing tiny people. Swift portrays him as an observer, a reporter, and a victim of circumstance. Gulliver's Travels describes the four fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a kindly ship's surgeon. By turns a children's fantasy and a social satire for adults, Gulliver's Travels is one of the most popular adventure tales of all time. ![]()
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