Different Ideas And Thoughts About Around The World In Eight Days

Yingning wang Ronen Steinberg IAH 202 SEC 15 03/11/2018 Thoughts About Around the World in Eight Days Jules presents different ideas in his novel especially regarding different cultures around the world. He presents two main characters, Fogg and Passepartout, who decides to go around the world and be able to complete the journey in eighty days. Along the way, they came across different obstacles in the different parts of the world that delayed their trip hence forcing them to carry out activities that recovered the lost time. Hence, some of the main themes presented in the novel to teach about the Europeans in the nineteenth century is the culture of imperialism and the innovations of industrial revolutions. People in different parts of the world have beliefs that could be good to other people and bad in their culture. An example in the novel is the case whereby Fogg and Passepartout came across a procession whereby a young woman in India was scheduled to go through the Sati (Verne 2011). According to the Indians, this practice was allowed, and they did not see anything bad in it. On the other hand, Fogg and Passepartout thought that what the Indians were doing to the woman was not right and it was an act of inhumanity. Therefore, they made a plan of rescuing her whereby Passepartout would rise from the pyre to scare the people so that they can rescue the woman. Their mission became a success, and the fled with the woman. In addition, through this example, Junes brings an insight to the fact that the Europeans cared more about the Indian society as compared to other things in their life. Fogg and Passepartout were on a mission to complete the journey in eighty days. They knew well that rescuing the woman could not only endanger their life if the Indians knew about the plan but could also delay their journey. Therefore, this is an indication of how important the Europeans valued the lives of other people to the extent of sacrificing important things to save one soul. So, in the 19th century, the Europeans valued life as they do in the current world. Besides, Jules presents the European culture as full of individuals that like giving out incentives for any good work that is done. Throughout the whole journey, Fogg and Passepartout were caught up in different situations whereby they were behind schedule. Therefore, they had to follow any solution that led to the recovery of the wasted time. An example is a case whereby they were late on the trip to Bombay (Verne 2011). Therefore, Fogg promised to offer a huge reward to the steamer engineer given the fact that he got them to Bombay earlier than scheduled. They got there two days earlier. This means that the reward acted as a motivating factor to the engineer hence making it possible for him to get the travelers to their destination on time. Hence, in the world of industrial revolution during the nineteenth century, the Europeans used various strategies to motivate their workers. Such strategies ensured a safe work environment whereby every employee could achieve their goals without facing threats from anyone. In so...