Wagas, Mary Weyden V.  

Tuesday 1:30 - 4:30                         

202C- Scream Group

“A Journey to the Center of the Earth”

1.)    Provide the context for how you came to choose the book you are reviewing.

Our professor ask us to find good books and the first three books that I showed him was rejected so my friend help me to find another books, We came to across by the three books again so I showed it to him and he told me that I will be the one who is going to choose because the three books has all the same genre's. The Peter Pan, Oliver Twist and the one that I have picked was A Journey to the Center of the Earth that was written by Jules Verne. I got Curious by the title it self, because we already knew the flow of Peter Pan and Oliver Twist based on their movies then, Our teacher told me that read first the book before watching the film, at first I did not know that it has a film.

2. Write an overview or summary of the book, identify key points raised, or highlights.

In the story there is this Professor named Liedenbrock who's profession was a great scientist. The book described him that he was like a mad at everything and to the world as well his attitude was very different to the movie, in the movie his character was he is a boxer, friendly and gentlemen. The professor has a nephew named Jonas in the movie but in the book his name was Axel, quite confusing because they changed and describe the characters in very different way both books and movie. So again I find the book cute because before you read the whole chapter there is a corresponding title which is very unusual to some scientific fiction. So they were solving for something passage that will lead them to the center of the earth. In the book they have a hard time on fixing those jumbled words but in the movie it was solve fast. The highlights of the story were they go and conduct an expedition to find the husband of Mr. Hastings which was lost Seven Years Ago.  Mr. and Mrs. Hastings want to explore before the center of the earth and find new things but one day Mr. Hastings left and began his journey all by his self, so when Mrs. Hastings went to the Professor he offered that he will pay just to find his husband, so while they were in their journey they go on train and boat it is their means of transportation. There is this cave that is a volcano like inside which is very hot in there they discover that his husband leave some key points or like marks on the said cave so that if ever they are going to see and find him they have clues on where to go. As they follow that they saw different kinds of scorpions and they also see different bird that belongs to the family of dinosaurs. Their journey is quite interesting because in the normal forest the color of their plants and trees are green but in their, it is color blue which I find it very magical and unique. As their journey began the professor and Mrs. Hastings develop their love for each other as well as his nephew Jonas to the tribe girl which lead them to find Mr. Hastings.

Mr. Hastings is a selfish man that it got to the point where he stole the powerful plant in the tribe which can cure all illness and that he thinks it is their key to become rich when they get back to their real place. While on their way back the plants fell on the ground and he go down to picked it up but unfortunately there were unknown species that killed him. Mrs. Hastings and Mr. Liedenbrock decided to continue their love story and get married. The nephew decided to leave her fiancée and go back o find the tribe girl to continue their love story as well.

3. What themes are explored in the narrative, if the book is a work of fiction?

 In my own point of view, I think the theme was Perseverance and Being One in Nature. Perseverance because even though they are not sure if the person they are finding is still alive or not but they still have the guts to find and they are positive thinkers as well, they believe that they could find Mr. Hastings. The second one was Being One in Nature because as they travel they did not grab the opportunity to destroy or to do something that is not good to the environment its like they come in peace and their job was to find the missing person on the said story.

4. What key insights did you gain?  How is it relevant to you personally or as a student of media.

While reading the book and watching its movie you can differentiate on how it was presented and well detailed in the book while in the movie the details that was shown their is thru the use of colors, things, and symbols. As a student of media we always want to capture unique stories, events, and things and show it to the other people thru the use of Proofs that our scoop is really true. It’s like your mother is asking you something and you need to answer the truth so that her trust to you won't be lessen or destroy.

5. What is your assessment/critique of the book in terms of its literary style, structure, argumentation and over-all content?  Justify your evaluation by citing specific passages or components of the book

               

The Author of the book that I am reading is Jules Verne and he is a French Author. The way he wrote his story thru the use of shaping and developing our minds to the modern science and that we should think as far as we could or imagine as we could in science. Jules Verne’s were popular throughout the world because of the books he wrote and most of them are a science fiction. In terms of the structure the book or his literary style he uses deep English words like the one I encountered cipher which is very new to me. I find the book good to read because the book is very more detailed at everything and with the use of the deep English words I learn new things. Science Fiction books are good because you can learn a lot of things about science and not only science but also in different aspects .