BOOK REPORT

BOOK TITLE: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

AUTHOR: Julio Verne
PUBLISHER: CLASSICS STARTS

MAIN CHARACTERS:
I. Captain Nemo
II. Professor Pierre Aronnax
III. Ned Land
IV. Conseil
V. Nautilus Tripulation
VI. The Nautilus
VII. Commander Farragut

Story Setting: In The Sea And in The Nautilus

Story Summary:

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the ocean begins in 1866, when ships of several
nations see a mysterious sea monster within the water. The U.S. government
assembles a team in N.Y. to hunt out and kill the monster. Professor Pierre Aronnax,
a French marine biologist and the narrator, is invited to hitch, as is Canadian whaler
and weapons expert Ned Land and Aronnax’s servant, Conseil. They board a Navy
frigate and visit Cape Horn, where they encounter the beast, believed by some to
be an oversized Narwhal. However, the beast attacks the ship and breaks its rudder,
causing the three men to be hurled into the water. They grab the creature’s body
and are shocked to hunt out that it isn't a creature within the slightest degree, but a
highly advanced submarine. They´re captured and brought inside, where they meet
the commander, the eccentric Captain Nemo. Now aboard the submarine, named
the Nautilus, they learn it had been in-built secret by Nemo and roams the seas free
from any Government law. Nemo, motivated by both a thirst for knowledge and
disgust for organized civilization, has designed it to be electrically powered and uses
it for advanced marine biology research. Although he's glad to own a fellow scientist
like Aronnax on board, he never plans on letting them leave to preserve his secrets.
Aronnax and Conseil are excited for the journey, but the blue-collar Ned Land is
keen to flee.

Along their journey, they visit the corals of the sea, the shipwrecks in Vigo bay, the
Antarctic ice shelves, and also the submerged kingdom of Atlantis. Using diving
suits, they hunt sharks with air guns, and have an undersea funeral for a
talented worker, who dies under mysterious circumstances. Another worker dies
within the book’s most famous scene once they return to the Atlantic and a bunch of
giant squids attack the Nautilus. Captain Nemo, an Indian man, is implied to
own exiled himself from the world after a confrontation with the forces occupying his
land that destroyed his family. After the incident with the big squid, it becomes
clearer that Nemo isn't well. He suddenly begins avoiding Aronnax; Aronnax
becomes more suspicious of him, plotting with Ned Land to escape.
Towards because the of the book, a warship attacks the Nautilus, and Nemo is
enraged, seeing it because the identical army that destroyed his land and his family.
He rams the Nautilus into the ship, sinking it and killing everyone on board. Nemo
becomes more and more obsessive a few solitary picture of his wife and kids, and
every one of the three men realize they have to escape before it's too late. Ned’s
health is deteriorating; Aronnax and Conseil anticipate to the ship to surface.
Then they create a fast escape, despite Aronnax feeling some guilt about leaving
Nemo behind. As they exit the ship for the last time, Aronnax realizes that Nemo has
been piloting it directly into a maelstrom. The three men find refuge on an island near
Norway, but the Nautilus sails on into the storm, never to be heard from again.

STORY CONCLUSION: The Nautilus heads towards the storm as to never be heard
from it again, this part gave me some goosebumps as it doesn’t say what Nemo and
the rest did afterwards.

OPINION ABOUT THE BOOK: The book is incredible because of how the author
describes the different scenarios and because I love stories that talk about sea
monsters.