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It kept talking about how they were fighting the sea on their ship and how their sail broke and they were struggling with the raging wind, it made me think about how Tom Hanks in Castaway battled the ocean, they're very similar.

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"so that the oldest sailor on board could not tell in what part of the world we were." He started the book/section off with a sense of unknown and some fear, so that Gulliver as well as we would be in the same shoes, seeing the situation from new eyes.

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"We were carried by my computation about five hundred leagues to the east, so that the oldest sailor on board could not tell in what part of the world we were."
This hyperbole exemplifies the situation at hand that even the olderst deckhand could not tell where the crew was, and that they were surely far far away from any known civilization.

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"on the south side whereof was a small neck of land jutting out into the sea, and a creek too shallow to hold a ship of above one hundred tons." Very descriptive imagery giving us a sense of the topography.

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"I was going to follow after them, although it had been to little purpose, when I observed a huge creature walking after them in the sea,". Did they just leave him when the giant came? He must not be very important to the voyage to be abandoned that quickly.

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"He appeared as tall as an ordinary spire - steeple, and took about ten yards every stride," A simile, to show the sheer size of these humanoids.

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"Being quite dispirited with toil, and wholly overcome by grief and despair, I lay down between two ridges and heartily wished I might there end my days." Is he really giving up that easily? On page 3?

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"In this terrible agitation of mind I could not forbear thinking of Lilliput, whose inhabitants looked upon me as the greatest prodigy that ever appeared in the world; where I was able to draw an imperial fleet in my hand,". He surely thinks high of himself.

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"It might have pleased fortune to let the Lilliputians find some nation, where the people were as diminutive with respect to them, as they were to me." It's Horatian satire because he's making fun of how people in his homeland are rude and mistreat him, and how they are treating him with more respect in this foreign land where they can't even communicate.

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"But my good star would have it, that he appeared pleased with my voice and gestures," It's an idiom where he uses but my good star would have it to relate to his luck.

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"There he called his wife, and showed me to her; but she screamed and ran back as women in England do at the sight of a toad or a spider." He makes a connection between these people and his own, seeing how they might not be too different.

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"He made me a sign to put them again into my purse, and the purse again into my pocket, which after offering to him several times, I thought i best to do." The "people" there don't have any concept of money, showing how different they are in some ways from Gulliver and his people. This showed him he truly was on foreign soil.

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"I fell on my knees, and pointing to the boy, made my master understand, as well as I could, that I desired his son might be pardoned." It is a use of parallelism, to show how he is adapting to this world quite quickly, learning his place, almost in a rhythm.

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"I was going to hollow after them, although it had been to little purpose, when I observed a huge creature walking after them in the sea." This understatement of the situation by Gulliver is a form of satire since Gulliver seems to react very calmly to a situation that is very out of the ordinary. This reaction is very satirical sense the reader is rather flabbergasted, but Gulliver is not.

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"I must confess no object ever disgusted;me so much as the sight of her monstrous breast," Their size just amplifies our faults as a society, satirically through them we can see our faults under a magnifying glass, thus showing us our true selves. Even if we don't want to see the truth because it's hideous.

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"This man , who was old and dim-sighted, put on his spectacles to behold me better, at which I could not forbear laughing very heartily, for his eyes appeared like the full moon shining into a chamber at two windows." This is a simile he uses to show again how big these giants are and also how even in this weird foreign situation he is at ease, it says a lot about Gulliver's mental acuity.

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"I considered my self to be a perfect stranger in the country, and that such a misfortune could never be charge upon me as a reproach if ever I should return to England, since the King of Great Britain himself, in my condition, must have undergone the same distress." He uses polysyndeton at the end of this quote to show how distressed he really is, speaking like he is out of breath, fearful and afraid, and he's trying to convince himself its normal and okay.

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"She was very good natured, and not above forty foot high, being little for her age." This is a use of irony and an understatement. In our world and even his world 40 feet for a child is enormous, but he has so easily integrated into their culture that he can see 40ft for the girl as small. And it's ironic because of how perplexing this statement is, and how it almost contradicts itself.

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"My nurse gave me part of a straw, which I exercised as a pike, have learned the art in my youth." This is  a form of juxtaposition because no one associates a piece of straw with a pike, it's weird to us, but in this situation it happens to make sense because of his size.

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"There was a woman with a cancer in her breast, swelled to a monstrous size, full of holes, in two or three of which I could have easily crept, and covered my whole body. There was a fellow with a wen in his neck, larger than five woolpacks, and another with a couple of wooden legs, each about twenty foot high. But, the most hateful sight of all was the lice crawling on their clothes. I could see distinctly the limbs of these vermin with my naked eyes, much better than those of an European louse through a microscope, and their snouts with which they rooted like swine." This example of imagery gives us a clear picture of the giants and there sheer size, he compares the size of lice on the giants to the size of an "European louse"

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"When I came to my own house, for which I was forced to enquire, one of the servants opening the door, I bent down to go in (like a goose under a gate) for fear of striking my head. My wife ran out to embrace me, but I stooped lower than her knees, thinking she could otherwise never be able to reach my mouth. My daughter kneeled to ask me blessing, but I could not see her till she arose, having been so long used to stand with my head an eyes erect to above sixty foot; and then I went to take her up with one hand, by the waist." He begins characterizing himself as he did the giants and now he begins acting as a giant among his family and servants.

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"... but my wife protested I should never go to sea any more; although my evil destiny so ordered that she had not the power to hinder me," Why does he refer to his adventures or expedition as evil?

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He mentions  Lilliput and how small everything was from the houses and trees to even the natives and it reminded me of the movie "The Smurfs" because of the tiny homes and people.

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"When dinner was done," How were these huge people capable of feeding such a relatively small man. That would be like us fixing a meal for a mouse.

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"This young girl was so handy, that after I had one or twice pulled off my clothes before her, she was able to dress and undress me." How is he so comfortable with that so fast?

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"For the horse went about forty foot at every step, and trotted so high, that the agitation was equal to the rising and falling of a ship in a great storm, but much more frequent". He's comparing his journey on the ship to riding a horse because of the backlash of both.

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"We passed over five or six rivers many degrees broader and deeper than the Nile or the Ganges; and there was hardly a rivulet so small as the Thames at London Bridge." He uses allusion to show how even though he's in this foreign land Gulliver is still comparing everything to his old life and his past, showing he hasn't moved on.

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When the scholars and the King's court are observing Gulliver they were deducing how there was no way he could survive in the wild or be real. It's the exact thing that humans would do had the tables been flipped, so it's satire because Swift is showing how people would act to such an event taking place.

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"A nice workman, who was famous for little curiosities, undertook to make me two chairs, with backs and frames," Impressive how they were able to make all these things for him at his size.

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"Her knives were twice as long as a scythe set straight upon the handle." Even though in this case it's true this is a simile because of the outlandish language of comparing a table knife to a scythe. It again exemplifies the sheer size of these giants.

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The giant "dwarf" was quite jealous of Gulliver and even tried to hurt him. It's just like people, when you have something someone else will want it, or if you take something from someone else they'll want it back. Swift is just showing that these giants might not be too different from humans...

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"However I had the courage to rise and draw my hanger, and attack them in the air." One moment Gulliver is a coward, the next he is brave, Swift changes this often to show much humans in general can vary.

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"I could see distinctly the limbs of these vermin with my naked eye," He uses the giants and their grand size to show the problems humans face. Things like the lice might be hard to see with humans at their size, and the giants can't see them either, but they're there. He shows us that even if you can't see the issue or problem that doesn't mean it isn't there.

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"But the poor gardener, who knew me well, and had a great kindness for me, was in a terrible fright." The people of this region seem better than humans, they don't seem very greedy, had something like this happened with humans a thief would have stolen Gulliver by now.

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"In this terrible agitation of mind I could not forbear thinking of Lilliput, whose inhabitants looked upon me as the greatest prodigy that ever appeared in the world;" Here, Gulliver cites himself as the greatest prodigy in the world, and the irony of the situation is that he thinks that the people of Lilliput look up to him as a great, but in reality they don't really care.

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"Their skins appeared so coarse and uneven, so variously coloured, when I saw them near, with a mole here and there as broad as a trencher, and hairs hanging from it thicker than pack threads," He definitely only sees them as hideous.

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"But this I conceived to be the least of my misfortunes: for, as human creatures are observed to be more savage and cruel in proportion to their bulk," Why does he assume that these creatures are savage based upon only their size? He has yet to try and speak with one of them yet.

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"a pleasant frolicsome girl of sixteen, would sometimes set me astride upon one of her nipples, with many other tricks, wherein the read will excuse me for not being over particular." Why is he that specific? Even saying he is sparing the reader by not being very specific he was still too specific.

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"But this I conceived was to be the least of my misfortunes: for, as human creatures are observed to be more savage and cruel in proportion to their bulk," We can see this type of assumption today as people are judging others before they truly get to know them, just as Gulliver did with the giants.

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For being a philosopher and a "gentleman" he can be quite crude and cruel. Like when he alluded to the fountain at Versailles and compared it to the the man's head being chopped off and the blood spouting like a fountain, he wasn't right in the head.

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"He considered a while with the caution of one who endeavors to lay hold on a small dangerous animal in such a manner that it shall not be able either to scratch or to bite him" Here Swift uses a metaphor to compare Gulliver and the giant's interaction to that of a person being careful with a small unknown animal in caution to make sure they are not hurt.

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"For I apprehended every moment that he would dash me against the ground as we usually do any little hateful animal which we have a mind to destroy." Here Gulliver, the narrator, is comparing himself using a simile in this situation to a small animal that is a nuisance when he is grasped by a giant.

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"holding me like a bay in one of his fore paws, and feeding me with the other,by cramming into my mouth some victuals he had squeezed out of the bag on one side of his chaps, and patting me when I would not eat;" This is some very descriptive, very unwanted imagery.

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"...but she screamed and ran back as women in England do at the sight of a toad or a spider." Why does Swift alternate between referring to England as Lilliput and as England. Do the instances that he changes his referencing have different meanings?

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Why is it that Glumdalclitch doesn't trust Gulliver, and why does she always tell the queen anything that happens, no matter how embarrassing it is to Gulliver?

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"either did they at all scruple while I was by to discharges what they had drunk, to the quantity of at least two hogsheads" He uses imagery here to describe how much the giants urinate and that description gives us a better understanding of how large they really were.

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"... and covered me with a clean white handkerchief, but larger and coarser than the mainsail of a man of war." This metaphor of comparing a handkerchief to a mainsail gives the reader a little insight to just how Gulliver is feeling. The reader can better understand the vast difference in size between the two species, with this metaphor and along with many others.

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Gulliver mentions religion when talking of Europe, but that makes me think about the fact that the giants have hardly mentioned religion. Are they not religious? Or did Swift just decided not to delve into it?

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When referring to the Giant's King Gulliver switches between calling him the King and calling him the Prince, why does Swift do this?

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¨These horrible animals had the boldness to attack me on both sides,¨ The irony of the situation is that Gulliver is not used to be attacked by these usual small and insignificant animals (rats) and he continues to act as such even though they are quite bigger than him.

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"He confined the knowledge of governing within very narrow bounds; to common sense and reason, to justice and lenity, to the speedy determination of civil and criminal causes;" He uses satire here, an example of irony to show how far humans have gotten from our original intentions. How far we've gone as to write thousands of books how to lead correctly when instead we could just be leading correctly like the giants. Sadly though, humans aren't like that, which Swift duly points out.

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"He confined the knowledge of governing within very narrow bounds; to common sense and reason, to justice and lenity, to the speedy determination of civil and criminal causes;" Here he uses simplification here to show how complex and corrupt human politics are, and he shows how with the Giant's King it can be simple as using common sense and reason.

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"this and other accounts of my travels to the world; wherein I have been chiefly studious of truth, without affecting any ornaments of learning or of impression on my mind." The irony of this statement is that Gulliver's travels are all based upon lies and fantasy as this satirical piece is relaying false stories of adventure. Also, he states that there has been no impression on his mind but there obviously has as he relays this story.

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"I saw one of them in a dish at the King's table, which passed for a rarity, but I did no observe he was fond of it; for I think indeed the bigness disgusted him," This is satire because the giant king was disgusted by how large the his meal, a whale, was but he himself is a giant.

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So did the giants already know about humans if they have books degrading them?

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",by the cursed advice he gave my master to show me as a sight upon a market-day in the next town." We connect this to broader events in earlier times in history when the townspeople would find odd things and show them off as trophies in the markets.

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"For in the course of many ages they have been troubled with the same disease to which the whole race of mankind is subject;" So they aren't perfect, they too fight wars and such, and apparently they are considered human.

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"I had now been two years in this country; and about the beginning of the third," that's a long time for him to survive.

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"He was strongly bent to get me a woman of my own size, by whom I might propagate the breed; but I think I would rather have died than undergone the disgrace of leaving a posterity to be kept in cages like tame canary birds," He's being compared with livestock, or even a simple object, something that has happened to others and other things in human culture as well.

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So every organism and object is larger in this land why is it that when they want to go to another town twenty miles away, it only takes them half an hour? Is the land in normal proportions to the rest of the world and the giants are just very big?

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Gulliver lived in a land of giants, yet they were quite similar to his own people. They too had war, cities, and people. But they ruled simply, their King when asked how he ruled his people he ruled simply, like wrong or right. He almost saw in black and white, he saw the simpleness of life and their life wasn't corrupted like the humans were. So Gulliver idolized them in this way. But also since the sheer size of the giants Gulliver at his size was able to see all their flaws, and they horrified him. The connotation of him disliking their size and what he saw is that its showing him what humans are like too, showing that just because something can't be seen, it is still there. They enlarge the faults he sees in himself and his people, it's Swift's way of blowing things out of proportion to show people the truth about themselves and society.