Book Report of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea(海底两万里英文读书报告)_bookreport2读书笔记
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a claicnovel by French writerpublished in.It tells the story ofand hisas seen from the perspective of Profeor Pierre Aronnax.general.As the story begins in 1866, a mysterious , theorized by some to be a giant , is sighted by ships of several nations;anis also damaged by the creature.The United States government finally aembles an expedition into track down and destroy the menace.Profeor Pierre Aronnax, a noted Frenchand narrator of the story, who
happens to be in New York at the time and is a recognized expert in his field, is iued a last-minute invitation to join the expedition, and he accepts.masterNed Land and Aronnax's faithful aistant Conseil are also brought on board.The expedition sets sail fromaboard aship called the , which travels down around the tip ofand into the.After much fruitle searching, the monster is found, and the ship charges into battle.During the fight, the ship's steering is damaged, and the three protagonists are thrown overboard.They find themselves stranded on the “hide” of the creature, only to discover to their surprise that it is a large metal
construct.They are quickly captured and brought inside the veel, where they meet its enigmatic creator and commander,.The rest of the story follows the adventures of the protagonists aboard the , the , which was built in secrecy and now roams the seas free of any land-based government.Captain Nemo's motivation is implied to be both a scientific thirst for
knowledge and a desire for revenge on(and self-imposed exile from).Captain Nemo explains that the submarine ispowered, and equipped to carry out cutting-edge marine biology research;he also tells his new paengers that while he appreciates having an expert such as Aronnax with whom to converse, they can never leave because he is afraid they will betray his existence to the world.Aronnax is enthralled by the undersea vistas he is seeing, but Land constantly plots to escape.Their travels take them to numerous points in the world's oceans, some of which were known to Jules Verne from real travelers'
descriptions and guees, while others are completely fictional.Thus, the travelers witne the realof the , the wrecks of the , theice shelves, and the fictional submerged.The travelers also donto go on
undersea expeditions away from the ship, where they huntand other marine life with specially designed guns and have a funeral for a crew member who died when an accident occurred
inside the Nautilus.When the Nautilus returns to the , a “poulpe”(usually translated as a , although the French “poulpe” means “”)attacks the veel and devours a crew member.Throughout the story it is suggested that Captain Nemo exiled himself from the world after an encounter with his oppreive
country somehow affected his family.Near the end of the book, the Nautilus is tracked and attacked by a mysterious ship from that nation.Nemo ignores Aronnax's pleas for amnesty for the boat and attacks.Nemo attacks the ship under the waterline, sending it to the bottom of the ocean with all crew aboard as Aronnax watches from the salon.Nemo bows before the pictures of his wife and children and is plunged into deep depreion after this encounter, and
“voluntarily or involuntarily” allows the submarine to wander into an encounter with the , more commonly known as the “Maelstrom”, a whirlpool off the coast of Norway.This gives the three prisoners an opportunity to escape;they make it back to land alive, but the fate of Captain Nemo and his crew is not revealed.
