When my first started this project, I
think this book if very difficult to understand and I just wonder how could I
finish this novel and how I write the summary for this book. This book is a
science fiction. In some chapter I have to read twice or three four times to
understanding the story in the book. Because I cannot understand some
explanations of this book. The writer tried to write about the future
technology (at the time is 19 century). That make me more confuse, but after I
finished half of the part one I just realized that this book is contain all the
science concept. I love science, and especially Physic. This book evokes a
great love for the physical sciences on every page. At the time the book was
written, all of the technologies and the devices in the book were brand-new.
Actually, the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a wonderful book. Written in the
late 19th century. At the time the book was written, all of the technologies
and the devices in the book were brand-new. It is also a great adventure story.
The story is told by Prof. Aronnax, who agrees to investigate a series of
attacks on shipping vessels in the Atlantic Ocean. They find the sea monster
that everyone thinks is responsible, but the sea monster turns out to be a
submarine. The most wonderful thing is this book can create an imagination of
undersea world into my mind.
December 5, 2012
Captain Nemo, the main character in the novel
In this book after I read, it can made
me memories a main character call Captain Nemo. The one who makes a token
appearance in the story. Captain Nemo, a character which is the writer can
created name is recognizable around the world. Nemo was a brilliant inventor
with a tragic air who may be just a bit mad. We will never know as much about
him as we would like to know. The name that he chosen for himself, Nemo in
Latin means "nobody". That can make a hint of mystery. But this
mystery can make him so fascinating. Nemo character could only see the upside
of science, indeed, like as not, he could not conceive a deeper, darker
downside. Captain Nemo character tall and swarthy in appearance, with a
straight nose and wide-set eyes, an attribute which gives him exceptional range
of vision. Nemo engaged in war and conflict to bring about his utopia and the
scientific-industrial joint-venture is using unnatural methods to bring about
their utopia.
Captain Nemo is a scientific genius
who roams the depths of the sea in his submarine, the Nautilus. He
believes that science will eventually develop methods and materials that will
provide ever increasing yields and monstrous sizes of produce that will
eliminate privation, want, and hunger forever and thus make moot the whole
point of war. He also is a promoter of science as the panacea of all social
ills, most especially human hunger.
Nemo tries to project a stern,
controlled confidence. Nemo’s drive was essentially anti-war, though he uses
war machines to achieve this goal. Nemo’s original goal of feeding the mass of
humanity was laudable, science and eventually, industry had equally noble
goals. Nemo as villain or hero because Nemo’s apparent desire to see the world
without strife. Captain Nemo personally develops plants and materials that will
serve this purpose and thus presupposes much of the big Pharma of today. He
is driven by a thirst for vengeance, and wracked by remorse over the deaths of
his crew members and even by the deaths of enemy sailors. Nemo dies of a
mysterious illness just before the eruption and is buried in his ship that is
then sunk.
December 4, 2012
December 2, 2012
Timeline
“20000 Leagues Under the Sea”
Timeline
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1866
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1867
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1868
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The Adventure Begins
July 23, 1866 : The ship Columbus, of the West India and
Pacific Steam Navigation Company has encounter with the unidentified aquatic
object.
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March 5, 1867 : The
ship, the Moravian, of the Montreal Ocean Company carrying 237
passengers from Canada.
April 13, 1867 : The
ship Scotia, of the Cunard Company’s line is struck by a sharp
and penetrating submerged object.
April 30, 1867 : A
newspaper article is published the article suggests that the unidentified
aquatic object of interest might be a marine animal of enormous power,
perhaps a giant Narwhal with a very strong tusk.
July 2,1867 : The frigate Abraham
Lincoln sets sail after hearing report of the supposed unidentified
marine object being spotted in the North Pacific.
November 4, 1867 : Ned
Land aboard the frigate Abraham Lincoln spots the
unidentified marine object.
November 16,1867 : Captain
Nemo invites Aronnax to a hunting party in the forests of the Island of
Crespo.
November 27, 1867 : The
Sandwich Islands are sighted by the crew of the Nautilus.
December 11, 1867 : The
crew of the Nautilus sight the Pomotu islands.
December 25, 1867 : The
Nautilus sails into the midst of the New Hebrides.
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January 28, 1868 : The
Nautilus is near the Island of Ceylon, “the pearl which hangs from the lobe
of the Indian Peninsula.”
February 5, 1868 : The
Nautilus enters the Gulf of Aden.
February 19, 1868 : Captain
Nemo and the Professor visit the Lost City of Atlantis at night under the red
light of lava flowing out of an underwater volcano.
March 21, 1868 : A
landing party from the Nautilus including Captain Nemo reach the South
Pole.
April 9, 1868 : The
crew of the Nautilus sight Cape San Rogue of South America.
April 12, 1868 : The
Nautilus approaches the Dutch coast near the mouth of the Maroni.
May 30,1898 : The Nautilus passes in sight of
Land’s End, between the extreme point of England and the Scilly Isles.
June
01, 1868
: The Tomb of the 'Marsellais'
July
1868
: Twenty-Thousand Leagues of Sea
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