Blog #2 Gulliver Meets Little People

 

To no surprise, from today's reading in Gulliver’s Travels I found my self confused. I for some reason had this idea planted in my head from the previous pages that Captain Gulliver was a noble intelligent man with a lot of education and now he is telling the stories of being captured by miniature people no larger than someones hand. 

The most significant passage I found in this weeks reading was about his first reactions to being captured. 

“In a little time I felt something alive moving on my left Leg, which advancing gently forward over my Breast, came almost up to my Chin; When bending my Eyes downwards as much as I could, I perceived it to be a human Creature not six Inches high, with a Bow and Arrow in his Hands, and a Quiver at his Back. In the mean time, I felt at least forty more of the same kind ( as I conjectured ) following the first. I was in the utmost Astonishment, and roared so loud, that they all ran back in a Fright; and some of them, as I was afterwards told, were hurt with the Falls they got by leaping from my sides upon the Ground.” ( Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Smith, p.g. 23-24)

I thought this passage was significant because his story is based around being captured by these little people and being treated like a captured Godzilla. Even-though it is clearly obvious that this story is made up, it makes me wonder if he was talking him self up to be all that and a bag of chips in his story. For example, earlier in the story his ship wrecks and he just happens to be the only one who survives, he also brags and boasts about his education and his financial endeavors. I am picturing Gulliver as that guy who goes fishing and says he caught a huge fish when he probably never even caught anything, in other words he is coming off as a cocky pretentious doushebag. 

I’m predicting that in the next few chapters and in the rest of this book Gulliver will continue to make up extraordinary stories that make him look like the greatest explorer that has walked this earth.