I'm reading the book "Around the World in Eighty Days" by Jules Verne.I am on page 157 of 210. When I talked about the characters last they were on a elephant on their way to Calcutta. When they reached Calcutta they met and added a new member to their group, her name is Aouda. She is a Indian women who has refused to be in an arranged marriage, so Phileas Fogg saved her. Then they headed to Bombay and Passepartout, Mr. Fogg's servant, got into some trouble with some priests. In Hong Kong the detective following them around had drugged Passepart so he couldn't tell Mr. Fogg that the ship to Yokohama. So then they miss the ship and somehow Passepartout makes it on the ship and is on his way. In Yokohama Phileas and Aouda finds Passepartout as a clown. They get back on the ship together as a group and head off on a long journey to the United States. Where I stopped reading they were all boarding the train from San Fransisco to New York City.
To me this book is getting better and better as I read. I think that the stories pace will pick up even more is because the book has gotten better and batter and the writer would not just stop making it better. A reason I think the author wrote this book to show how many different cultures there are in the world and how much different they are. Like how some places their is pretty much only one type of people like in India, but in Japan their is all cultures of people from all parts of the world. A theme to this book could be traveling and the technology of the late 1800's. An example of the technology is they all had to go by either train or ship unlike taking an airplane in today's world.
My favorite character is Phileas Fogg. He is always calm. Even when things are at their worst he never reacts in anger. Everyday of the trip though he seems to get a little bit more excited because he is right on time for his calculations. To me all the quotes are good so it is hard to choose. My only question is if they are going to make it in time.
Kolby Melsha
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