Gulliver’s Fifth Voyage

I had been immobile for a strong deal too long and I was yearning to begin a nonher smashing voyage when I determined that I would go due west to investigate the civilisition that dwelled in that location. It was mid-summer and my commit was to set out from Dover. I boarded the ship and was greeted by an old man, with a potbelly and crooked nose, accompanied by a scar from left over(p) ear to left eye. This, I assumed was my captain. I had been tot every last(predicate)y haggard out by my long journey and inquired where my quarters would be, and the captain slayered to set up me himself.As we went below decks, there was less light, entirely I could settle down take up where I was going. The captain went to a door that opened into a quite a spacious cabin, with a bunk on the far wall, and a mahogany desk be location the door. With that, the captain left saying, I hope every occasion is to your satisfaction, sir, and that you live a pleasant rest. This was the last I saw of the man. When I awoke the next morning, as I was almost to take a walk along the coastline, I could see a sheet of bags scattered for miles with the words Walkers, Tayto printed on them and travel cans with Coca Cola wrote on it.I had never seen anything like this before it moldiness look at been a focusing for the race who lived here to make it much decorative looking. Although I could see people in the infinite pointing and move their head, theses people must have thought different. All I could see around me was a mass of round towering buildings, with thick, black tidy sum belting out of them and people coughing vigorously. It must have been their way off appreciating these works of art. I was arouse from my gaze by a deep, commanding voice, which was barking at me, Who the hell are you?And where the hell are you from? I turned and saw that I was surrounded by a sort out of men, dressed in green garments, each holding a resile of musket in their arms. I told the man who had barked at me that I was travelling the solid ground and making journals on my findings. I told him that I would like to explore his res publica further. He agreed to betoken me around parts of the country, as much as he could. He introduced himself to be swab Kenwood. As we go further into the city, I matte up more and more alienated as everyone stopped and stared at me.I felt depressed, as there was non a single person there like me. But so we came to this dark, dull street, quite unlike the rest of the city. As we walked on all I could see were people covered in filth, with their hands out, mendicity for food or money. I was astonished as people were really giving them it. It was so jealous as these people were getting food for nothing, much(prenominal) an ingenious idea. I asked whack why these people were vivacious like this, and was told that the presidential term has not the money to do anything for these people tho instead they needed the it for the war effort.This seemed an excellent way to spend the money. We walked on for another mile or so, when I was startled by Pat yelling and pointing at what seemed to me like a tent with huge poles energy out from the top of it. I asked what this monstrosity was and was given the reply that it was the millennium Dome. I could see there was another one off those homeless people being dragged away. You wouldnt think it, but it unaccompanied cost i800million to build. It was a way for the people to celebrate the new millennium. Firstly I was blow out of the water too that it merely cost i800million.He explained to me that its main function was only to bring in the New Year and that after that it is virtually useless. Wow, i800million on a building that is only designed for one nights entertainment, it must have been some night. Then it struck me. He said Millennium and when I asked about this he replied, You know, the year 2000. I was neatly disturbed by this, as I still believed it to be the 18th Century. When I had get the best the slight illness I began to feel, Pat offered to take me to a house called a Cafi where we would get a drink of tea.Pat explained to me that this was no ordinary, but an Internet Cafi. I was interested by these new contraptions called Computers I think. harmonise to Pat they where designed to make curbs a thing of the past. I asked him to show me how to operate one, he handed me a book saying Heres the manual, indicate it, and youll know what to do The book was quite heavy, yet colourful, but it was perplexing to me as it mentioned things like keyboards and modems and I had no what these things where. What intelligence, designing some thing to do away with books, yet you need to read a book to know how to work the thing.These people were even more disturbing than those from the res publica of Lilliput. As we left the Cafi we found it hard to cross as there were so many mechanical machines known as cars moving up and down at intense speeds. I thought it remarkable that these machines dont brawl down people but Pat corrected me by stating that people do get knocked down by these all the m, but only twenty-four have died this year. This seemed a small price to pay for such marvellous invention but out off know where we perceive a loud thud and people screaming.There was somebody duplicity on the ground face-up, all bloody and twisted. A car travel of very fast and it had loud music coming out of it with infantile people bouncing up and down with bottles in their hands. This looked like good fun and wished I could join in. At this point I told Pat farewell and thanked him for all he had done. As I walked further in to the city, I was confronted by another group of men, this time dressed in black. I also noticed that they carried similar muskets to Pat and his gang. One of them asked wherefore were you talking to that traitor? I hen had to explain that I was an venturer investigating their country. This seemed to interest them and their leader spoke You had better listen to our side of the story as well. I agreed to this, as I did not want to appear biased, but to be fair I no longer felt intimidated by this group of men and felt I could relax while I listened to their story. But, as I began to sit, they dragged me up and told me it was not safe here and that we would have to go to their safe house, called Dubnil. He introduced himself as Peter.He told me how a foreign power had invaded his country and that their government discriminated against the natives in favour of colonists. The natives decided to start a rebellion in order to fight for the rights, and their freedom. This make the foreign government introduce a plot called ethnic cleansing to eliminate the natives. This disgusted me as I had of all time associated cleansing as something that was pure and glorious, yet this brutal government used it to describe the more or less evil thing that I had ever perceive of. This foreign government shocked me more than the viciousness of the leader in Lilliput.They described murder as cleansing which disturbed me so much that I was glad I never lived here and that none of my countrys great leaders never acted in any manner that could be compared to the oppressors of this God-forsaken country. From the distance I could see this mobile cannon I asked Pete what this was. He told me that it was a weapon of mass destruction called a nuclear bomb. I asked what this all meant and he replied, death, mutation, the end, storms, blackouts, cancer, tidal waves, flooding, drowning.I was greatly impressed by this weapon, as the weapons of my time could only kill one at a time. Pete offered to give me a view of the city and helped me scramble up a mountain of rubble. He handed me a pair of strange spectacles that enabled me to see further. I could see the entire city, demolished to rubble, and I could see five tanks patrolling the city. whirl said, We love our countr y so much, we started blowing up this city to fight for our freedom. This was the or so intelligent and sophisticated scheme I ever came across.I had construct so caught up in my thoughts that I lost my concentration and slipped and rolling down the side of the mountain of rubble, crashing to the ground, which knocked me out cold. When I awoke I was on a bed in a long white corridor, which had quite a compelling smell of some chemicals or something. I sat up in the bed and before me was a woman in white uniform with a white hat. She apologised to me because there was a dearth of staff due to lack of government funding. I asked her what affect does this have on them and she replied, disease, sick, suffering, heartache, failure, frustration, misery, depressing.Still, it seemed to make more sense if it was spent on things that made you happy like the Millennium Dome. I found myself drifting off into a deep sleep as the nurse injected something into my arm, it felt reposeful and be fore you know it I was at the Dover coast with no suspicion of how I got there. I found my expedition to be the most exciting Ive ever been on as there were some great inventions such as nuclear bombs and magnificent structures such as the Millennium Dome. I am definitely going to come back in short as there is so much more to learn about this wonderful place again.