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lilykins
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In Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, how does Lemuel Gulliver plan to escape the Lilliputians' bonds?

 

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Posted by lilykins on Monday September 14, 2009 at 9:51 AM and tagged with characters, gulliver, lilliputians.

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  1. thewritingteacher
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    Lemuel Gulliver must surely have been astonished to awaken after a shipwreck to find himself tied down with a series of slender ropes. Even his hair was tied down so that he could not even turn his head to see where he might be and how he came to be tied to the ground.

    He felt the Lilliputians before he saw them as they walked over his chest. He yelled (or screamed) at the sight of six inch humans, and they tumbled down. After that, Gulliver struggled and eventually broke the strings and free his arms and legs. As he worked to free his hair, the Lilliputians pelleted him with arrows until he decided the best course of action would be to lie still until they left and then complete the task of freeing himself.

    Of course, the thing could not be done so easily, and it took a great deal of time and a promise to be a cooperative prisoner before the Lilliputions finally cut the rest of the bonds.

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    Posted by thewritingteacher on Saturday September 26, 2009 at 4:56 PM