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Jonathan Swift, BOOK 1, BOOK 2, BOOK 3, BOOK 4 - Coggle Diagram
Jonathan Swift
Book questions
4. How many Struldbrugs are thought to be in the kingdom?
It is thought they should be around eleven hundred.
5. At what age does the Struldbrugs' behavior begin to change?
behavior begins to change from the age of 30 onwards, because they become melancholy and dejected increasing in both cases until they reach four hundred years old.
3. The stain remains the same size and color over time.
The spots vary both in size and color with increasing age.
6. How did the person talking to Guliver learn about strudorugs?
He learnt about them listening to their own confession
2. Where do Strulabruas have a colored spot? What does the sooty spot mean?
On the forehead, just above the left eyebrow, it signifies that they would never die.
7. Why do the Struldbruas have more problems than mortals?
At first they never die and they are not able to feel emotion or natural affection.
- Who was Gulliver talking to? was Gulliver interested in the
topic or the conversation?
He was talking to a person of quality and he was interested in the conversation.
8. Why are the Struldbruas envious of the vices that they had when they were younger?
Because getting older they have no possibility of pleasure or desire.
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10. which four things can the Struldbrugs not do once they turn eighty?
After that period, they are held incapable of any employment of trust or profit; they cannot purchase lands, or take leases; they allowed to be witnesses! in any cause.
11. Do the Struldbruas enioy then meals when they turn ninety?
No, they don’t because they lose their teeth and the taste so they eat whatever they get.
12. Do the Struldbrugs get sicker and sicker as time goes by?
Yes, they do because they forget the the names of persons and things.
18. What is the usual way of figuring out their age?
The usual way is asking them which kings or princes they can remember and look for in history.
13. Can ninety-year-old Strudoruas read? why?
No, they can’t because they lose the memory
17. What do the mortal inhabitants on the island think when a Struldbrug is born?
They think is not a lucky event.
14. How do the Struldbruas feel as they grow older and older?
living like foreigners in their own country
20. would Gulliver like to be a Struldbrug?
No, he would not because of what he has seen and heard
15. How old is the youngest Strudoruas that Gulliver meets?
The youngest is not above two hundred years old
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16. Do the Strudorugs love listening to stories about Gulliver's travels?
No, they don’t because they don’t have the curiosity to ask any questions
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BOOK 1
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the inhabitants, the
‘Lilliputians’, are
only six inches tall.
BOOK 2
rescued by a ship, he returns to
England.
he becomes the king’s pet, kept in a cage dropped in the middle of the Ocean by a huge bird;
the natives are giants, twelve times as tall as Gulliver;
he finds himself in ‘Brobdingnag’, a country located in Alaska;
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BOOK 3
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the inhabitants are immortal and distracted astronomers, philosophers and scientists
the island drops Gulliver on Japan, and he manages to return to England.
BOOK 4
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horses endowed with reason that rule over the ‘Yahoos’, a vile species of animal resembling human beings;
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