Jack Bryant
1301 E Walnut St.
Carbondale, Illinois 62901
Dear Jules Verne,
Hello I am currently a student at Carbondale Community High School. This year in English class my teacher our teacher has assigned us the task of having a blog and keeping up with it weekly. This is what brings me to be writing you a letter at this time. As a little added extra to the blogging assignment our teacher told us we were to write a letter to the author of one of the books we read this quarter and I enjoyed your book more out of the two. The book made me catch myself thinking that I would enjoy doing something similar to Phileas Fogg. When I read this book I think of Phileas just having the life, being an inventor who is very wealthy and can just do what he wants when he wants. The reason this sounds interesting to me is because I myself would like to become so sort of engineer or inventor. Through my childhood I have always taken much joy into putting things together and building things whether if it was from my imagination or from the set of instruction that came with the appliance that I was allowed to put together. But this is what probably makes me so interested in the book itself.
Something the book showed me about the world today that I have never taken much thought into was how many advancements in technology we have had. Before reading this book I’m sure any kid would think, “Wow, 80 days? That is forever! I could get around the world in 24 hours in an air plane.” But they forget to think about how fast 80 days really is for that time period. In your book you speak of how Phileas travels around the world by all different types of transportation, including the train, steamer, carriage, and even hot air balloon when really all of those things today have a bigger better form of that transportation or just have major improvements. The train has gotten much faster and it can travel much farther than what it used to be able to. The steamer has been replaced by the luxury cruise liner. The carriage has of course been replaced by the car and the blimp by the air plane. So the world of transportation has changed dramatically which I don’t usually think about.
What really surprised me about myself while I was reading this book was about how interested I was in a book written over 100 years ago. I am not a big fan of books as it is so I wasn’t sure how I was going to like a book. So I was unsure about how I was going to like a book that did not speak modern day slang but it was quite the opposite. This different form of English actually kept me more interested in the book because in a way it was more entertaining to me. Sometimes around the house, my brother sister and I go around saying “Indubitably” to everything and so it was funny when I actually read words like that in the book. So thank you Mr. Verne, for writing such a good book that kept me entertained and interested.
Sincerely,
Your reader
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