Part Two: Chapter 1, by Mel & Andrew

Gullivers Travels
Part 2, Ch.1

“A great storm described. The long boat sent to fetch water, the author goes with it to discover the country. He is left on Shoar, is seized by one of the natives, and carried to a farmers house. His reception there, with several accidents that happened there. A description of the inhabitants.”

- He gets stuck in a field of barley, and hides from the giant.
- He yells out before the giant begins to harvest the crop surrounding him
- In front of the master of the farm, Gulliver takes off his hat and bows, shows them a purse full of gold, and uses a knife of fork to eat, delighting the giants
- At dinner, the baby giant picks up Gulliver, but the farmer saves him from his son, preventing him from becoming a play toy
- Gulliver sleeps in the wife of the farmer’s bed. Upon awakening, he has to defend himself, he has to defend himself from a pair of giant rats with his sword.

“Scared and confounded as I was, I could not forbear going on with these Reflections; when one of the Reapers approaching within ten Yards of the Ridge where I lay, made me apprehend that with the next Step I should be squashed to Death under his Foot, or cut into two with his Reaping Hook. And therefore when he was again about to move, I screamed as loud as Fear could make me. Whereupon the huge Creature trod short, and looking round about under him for some time, at last espied me as I lay on the Ground."

The significance that this quote carries is contrast shown between the way that Gulliver is perceived in Liliput and Brobdingnag. In Liliput he was a giant and worried about trampling over the Liliputions, and in Brobdingnag, he fears being trampled himself. Instead of being powerful and significant, he is instead miniscule and inferior.

Themes-

In different situations and contexts, we carry different amounts of significance. While we may be known and respected in one case, we can become inferior and weak in another. That is why we should never takes situations for granted, as they can change at the drop of a hat, as seen by Gulliver in the book.