Jonathon Teacher Prep Work

While reading the excerpt from Swift's Gulliver' Travels, Part 1: A Voyage to Lilliput, I've come up with several questions. The first question that came to mind after reading this is what are some philosophical ideas behind the excerpt from Swift's Gulliver' Travels? The reason why I chose this question is because all stories have significant philosophical ideas behind them. The main philosophical idea behind the expert from Swift's Gulliver' Travels is how people as a whole can conquer something big. The small people in the story represent your everyday people, and the Gulliver is a symbol for the government. This story shows how when people are united anything is possible. The next question that came to mind after reading this story is what does the character Gulliver represent? Gulliver represent something large in society such as the government or even an political issue. I chose this question because while reading the story I was continuously asking myself what does this character symbolize. The reason Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels is to satirize a political issue in society during the time he first wrote the story. The story is one that everyone can relate because their is always something going on in the world. For example, global warming is becoming a major problem for the world. If mankind unite together we can capture this problem and control it just like the little people did to Gulliver.

I really enjoy working in small groups. When I work in small groups, it give me different prospectives on the reading. Many times when I read something I have my blinders on, so working with a group helps me see the whole picture. Also, another thing I enjoyed while working in small groups is that everybody in my group came prepared and ready to work. Something I would change about working in groups would be focusing on my work more often. There were many sidebars within the group. All in all, I really enjoy working in groups and hope we do it more often.