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Around The World In Eighty Days Summary

Around The World In Eighty Days: Summary Essay, Research Paper


Around the World In Eighty Days: Summary


The title of the novel, Around the World in Eighty Days, is pretty much


self explanatory. An Englishman, Phileas Fogg, places a wager that he can


circumnavigate the world in 80 days. The events that occur throughout the novel


describe his journey around the world.


Phileas Fogg, the protagonist, was a lonesome person who lived with his


paid servant. Mr.Fogg was thought to be rich although no one knew where his


riches came from.


Jean Passepartout, Fogg’s paid servant. A strange fellow who had held


many different jobs, such as fireman and gymnast.


Detective Fix, an English detective who followed Fogg around the world


because he suspected that Mr. Fogg was a bank robber.


Aouda, a Parsee woman who was saved from a Setee by Fogg and


Passepartout.


The antagonist of the novel was time, Mr. Fogg was pressured to arrive


back in London within 80 days or otherwise lose his fortune.


My favorite character in the novel is Passepartout. Passepartout was an


innocent Frenchman that just after being hired as Mr. Fogg’s servant was told to


pack for a trip around the world. Throughout the entire novel the reader is


informed of all the peculiar habits of Fogg that Passepartout had to support.


My least favorite character is Fix the detective. He followed Fogg


around the globe, he missed arresting him in India and Hong Kong through


incompetence, and as soon as they arrived back in London, he did arrest Fogg but


erroneously.


The main conflict of the novel was time. Time caused a lot of pressure


on Fogg; he had to get back to London on time or

he would lose the money he


wagered. Mr.Fogg and Passepartout were confronted many times with the problem


of lost time; when time was lost extra effort and work had to be put in so as to


make up for the lost time.


The incident that made me happy was when the real bank thief was caught


and Fogg was let out of jail with exactly enough time left to arrive in London


on time.


The one part that I would change is when Passepartout and Fogg are


separated on India and then they meet up again coincidentally in Japan. I know


that this is science fiction, fiction being the important word but still it is


to something that is almost impossible to happen in real life.


While Fogg and Passepartout were in the India jungle, they saw a woman,


Aouda, who was going to be burned alive as a sacrifice. Fogg decided to attempt


to save her. The actions taken by Phileas Fogg would probably not happen in


society today due to lack of compassion for other human beings. In such an


instance, society would watch this inhumane behavior take place.


The moral the author tried to convey is that with human effort and


willpower, enormous obstacle can be overcome. This message was expressed in the


way in which Fogg pushed himself to the limit just to succeed


Since the novel was about a trip around the world there was no main


setting established. The importance of a constantly changing setting is to show


the contrast between one country and another. The importance of the setting to


the plot is that while reading a novel, such as this, with a constantly


different setting it helps the reader realize the acustomization that the


protagonist must go through adjusting from country to country.

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