Gulllivers Travels/Dandelion Wine: Comparison and Understanding

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Gullivers Travels/Dandelion Wine: A Comparison and Understanding Jonathan Swift, in Gulliver’s Travels, mainly refers to planet earth and the people that live inside it, but in the touching novel Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury mainly talks to the reader as an individual and the changes he or she has to go through in life. These two novels are not much alike, but relate in opposite ways, as Gulliver’s Travels mainly refers to a society or a group of people and Dandelion Wine mainly refers to a single human being. Jonathan Swift explains that people don’t change, only their way of life and customs do. Bradbury tells us that people can not stop change in their lives, and change will always be present in the air around them. In the novel of Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver sees the way the creatures on his adventures act, and relates them to his own friends and fellow beings. Furthermore, Gulliver states that “the writing of the Lilliputians was very peculiar, not like the European; nor from right to left like the Arabians; nor from up to down like the Chinese; nor from down to up like the Cascagians, but aslant like the ladies in England” (Swift 65). In this paragraph, Swift relates the writing of the Lilliputians to the writing of English ladies. He explains that some of the education does not compare to that of the humans: “They bury their dead with the heads inward and feet outwards, because they believe that in 11 thousand moons, when they will rise, they will be ready on their feet” (Swift 65). In this interesting paragraph, Swift talks about the “peculiar” laws and practices that were presented in Lilliput and how he would make a little justification to the laws if they were held in his country and world. Swift compares the things the Lilliputians do in their world to the human’s practices and beliefs. Also, in Gulliver’s Travels, Swift sees the negatives in his
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