Mrs. Ellis
2nd Hour English
4/16/14
Gulliver’s More Dangerous Travels
As Gulliver is swimming away from the Island of the Brobdingnagians he is caught off guard by a Giant 400 ton whale. It snatches him up in his mouth as if he were krill and carries him over 10,000 miles across the ocean, then blows him out at the Island of Abarat.
Gulliver is unconscious for at least a few hours. When he finally comes to, he is awoken by great band of hearty Pirates. They quickly tie him up at first glance of him, because to their eye, they notice that he, is in the least, two feet taller than the rest of them. Gulliver struggles to squirm from the Pirates grips but fails due to there being way too many for them to handle. While being tied up Gulliver becomes aware of what the Pirates are chanting, for they are wailing screams of anger or freight, but they are singing Sea Shanties to one another. All Gulliver can do is lie there terrified at the Pirates while they laugh at his futile attempt to break free from the ropes of which he is bound by. Gulliver pleads for days on end to speak with the Pirate Captain but he is not granted that right until a weeks time when Cap’n Bilder Burry returns from his raid on Here Be Dragons. Upon his return, he notices Gulliver and immediately draws his sword at the sight of the slightly taller human creature.
Proceeding to ask, “What be you doin’ on me ranky ship?”
Gulliver replied, “I cannot help but to be bound to your ship when your scallywag crew has bounded me here beyond my own free will.”
As the crew draws their swords out of anger of Gulliver’s insults he has made about them, The Captain instructs them to sheath their swords and to pull the anchor for they are about to make a three day trip by sea, back to Here Be Dragons. Gulliver is in shock and confused on where or what this place is. In a panic he begs the Pirate Captain to free him, pleading that he has done no harm, that it was Captain Burry’s crew that