Gulliver's Travels

In the novel Gulliver’s Travels, satire and sarcasm exude. Jonathan Swift, the author, creates a picture in the reader’s mind of a sarcastic and unreal way of living. By writing this novel, Swift is sending the message that people in the world care too much about themselves and not enough about others.
In the first part of the book, Gulliver is ship wrecked during a long voyage and fortunately is able to swim ashore to a town called Lilliput. He falls into a deep sleep, and when he wakes up he notices that he is tied down and there are miniature people all around him. The size of Gulliver is unrealistically large, but he does not harm the little people. At ...