The Adventures of Gulliver

Summary

This story is about Gulliver's many voyages, and this is a story about one of them. The ship he sailed on was the Antelope. On his way back from there, a storm sank the ship. The Gulliver swam to land to save his life, and he was in an unknown land. He was extremely tired, so he went to sleep for about nine hours, and he woke up the next day.

Once he woke up, he tried to move, but he realised that his legs, hands, and hair were all tied down. Then he felt something moving from his leg to his head, and almost 40 more men like that one followed him. By looking at what they wore, they looked like soldiers, so he gave a great cry. They all ran away in fear, and some of them got hurt while jumping because they were the size of half a foot of his.

After trying to set me free for a while, I managed to get one arm free, and a lot of soldiers tried to tie me to the ground again, but they moved away from my hand as soon as I tried to crush them, and I felt things pricking my hand. I think they were trying to shoot arrows at me. I was worried about my eyes, so I put one hand over my face. After that, the smartest thing to do was lie quiet till the night with one arm free so that I could escape easily. Right after that, a platform was raised, and an important-looking man gave a long speech and tried to tell me that they would not harm me if I listened to whatever they said. I agreed, and I let them know that I was hungry.

At once, a hundred men came and started to put food in my mouth. The size of their bread was the size of a bullet, so I almost ate one or two loaves of bread in one bite. The little Lilliputians were in shock. They were passing comments on how much I was eating. There were so many on my body that I could grab about 40 in one hand, but I kept in mind my promise. I was surprised by their bravery because I must have been the biggest giant they had ever seen. Later, I was taken to the city. They put me on a cart, joining many carts 900 men worked for 3 hours to make a cart for me, and although the city was half a mile away, we took all day to get there.

We finally got there, and the king came. They didn't think it was safe for the king to climb on top of me, so he came on his chariot. The cart stopped outside the largest town building, a church. It had not been used as a church for a long while, so I had strong gold rings to keep me from going around the door. It was 4-foot talk, so I could bend on my fours to enter. After a few days, the king and the town's people were convinced I wouldn't harm anyone so I could move around.

I asked them if I could go and see the city. Everyone in the city was told to stay home. I went to the two biggest streets of the town. Every window had a face looking at me. At the end of the two streets was the palace. There was a garden all around, and I looked in. I saw the queen and some of the princesses. They were very happy to see me.