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Gulliver's Travels Yesterday I finish the reading of Gulliver's Travels. In the world, there really have some tiny people? I'm very curious. For the giant people is horrible, how will be if the tiny and giant people living together? Oh ,I'm afraid the world will upside down.

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Gulliver's Travels

Yesterday I finished the reading of Gulliver's Travels. Are there really such tiny people in the world?, there really have some tiny people? I'm very curious. For the giant people it's horrible., What would it be like how will be if the tiny and the giant people live living together? Oh, I'm afraid the world will be upside down.

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Gulliver's Travels

Yesterday I finished the reading of/reading (you can say it more simply using just the gerund 'reading') Gulliver's Travels (in English?). In the world (better to put this phrase at the end), are there really have some such tiny people? I'm very curious. For Since the giant people is are horrible, how will would it be if the tiny and giant people were living together? Oh, I'm afraid the/such a world will would be upside down.

 

The books of Gulliver's Travels are satire, imagination, phantasy, even science-fiction

 

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你好 Mandy There are some very short people live in southern Africa, who are known as 'pygmies', although this word is probably not appropriate. However, Jonathan Swift, in 1726, would not have known about them, as he was writing before they were discovered by European explorers more than a hundred years later, in the next century. His novel is a satire on [makes fun of / makes a joke of] the attitudes and behaviour of the people of his time. Your expression 'the world will upside down' became popular, and there are a number of public houses [bars] in England with this name. It originates [comes from] a protest song written in the 1640s during the English Civil War, against the austere attitude of Parliament towards celebrating Christmas, saying "you see the world turn'd upside down." Swift would have known about that, and may well have thought that in 'Gulliver's Travels', he was showing a 'world turn'd upside down'.

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