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Book Report Gulliver's Travel
Name : Amalia Amanda Kasih

Student #. : 101214129

Date of submission : 15th of March 2010

Book Report : 1 2 3 4 (circle)

[pic] • Title of Book : Gulliver’s Travel • Author : Jonathan Swift • Publisher : Oxford University Press • Year of publication : 1971
Setting (of time and place)
The setting of the novel is 1699. Major places that this novel took place are in the Country of Lilliput and Brobdingnag, the land of the giants.
Major Characters: Give a brief description of each character.
1. Lemuel Gulliver
He is a doctor who works in the ship. He is such an adaptable people, he is able to deal with his new situation in new place such as in Lilliput, the country of small people or in Brobdingnag, the land of giants. He is helpful enough , he helps Lilliput to win a war over Blefuscu. He treats people nicely, he is such a friendly.
2. Glumdalclitch
She is 9 years old. She is very nice and really kind, she looks after Gulliver and she is willing to be her nurse.
3. The Farmer (Glumdalclitch’s Father)
He is a farmer in Brobdingnag. He really greedy, he tells Gulliver to work harder and harder so he can get much money for himself. He is such an evil because he makes Gulliver as a plaything.
4. The Emperor of Lilliput
He can’t keep his word, he promises to Gulliver that he would release him but the Emperor keeps postponing it. He never satisfied, when Gulliver helps him to win the war over Blefuscu, he keeps wanting more and more Blefuscu’s warship from Gulliver.
Summary:
Have you ever been to strange place? Or somewhere when you don’t belong to there? It just happens to Lemuel Gulliver. He is a doctor. Someday a captain asks him to be a doctor in his ship, Gulliver accepts it. So he sails with Antelope, the name of the ship. Unfortunately the ship brokes in two because it hits a rock. Gulliver manages to survive, he swims to the shore. He falls asleep because he is too tired. When he awakes, he

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