Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (Around the World in Eighty Days) by Jules Verne.

By reading in a daily newspaper Le Siecle, which stated a man can travel around the world in eighty days, inspired Jules Verne on a plot. He originated ideas in his words for “ten or fifteen years” before turning them into a novel. Around the World in Eighty Days was released as a completed edition in 1873.

A conception was ruined by contrived created danger for a protagonist Phileas Fogg. That respected and known gentleman was identified as a bank thief, though a portrait of a criminal had been drawn before, whereas a lead character in that situation should have had an alibi, which is that his daily routine is the same, and his friends from Reform Club, where he spends most of the day are those who could confirm where he was at the time of stealing. Logically, a criminal who took money wouldn’t claim about doing a world travelling and report his itinerary. That bank was an eccentric place itself with having no security because it trusted everybody as that anyone could pick up a bullion bar to look at it, give to another person, and that could continue until a piece of gold was returned to place, as the narration tells. This levity caused to a disappearance of 55,000 pounds, which the bank simply considered as “losses”.

The Frenchman is unchangeable in his aspects. Whimsical metaphors, embedding of knowledge, and all his books that I have opened always had that main heroes at the age or around of forty, and that man usually kept a servant–but I don’t have anything against with the last. A main hero of this novel, Fogg, has a resume description, but Verne advances in writing by bringing him a personality, as well as, he does that with his man Passepartout, though he had a resume introduction. Detective Fix with the same way of characterizing also turned with personality too in this short reading again.

Verne isn’t wonderful as a writer. He repeats details about characters across several pages in geometric progression as it was once read that the French servant Passepartout lives in England for five years and he changed many jobs. Then, there was given that this man hasn’t been in Paris for five years. It makes one believe that a book was thin initially, and Verne wanted to expand it. It was among of reasons of quitting, which was in the describing that Fogg has a notebook and there sets out the written which are the cities that the protagonist arrived at, with dates and minutes. After that, the French author informs that Fogg made insertions of dates from October 2 to December 21, to where included names of months, dates and days of the week, and also added cities. Verne could be concise here instead of repeating, but he writes in the further that on Wednesday, October 9, Fogg noted that arrived in Suez. It was chapter seven, and it was over with reading. This act shared with the plot in which Fix comes to finding logical that Fogg rides to India, and does it with admitting it is a British colony. No suspicion that Fogg isn’t the thief. He hasn’t it when finds out that his fellow Englishman wants to put a stamp in Suez’s British Consulate. The council believes rightly that a clever thief would come to him, but Fix has a vice versa view. However, the council claims he will put a visa anyway if a passport is in order. In killing commonsense, Verne made that Fix still didn’t get an arrest warrant. Heroes visited the Consulate, but Fix didn’t disturb them. These characters will see each other again with all English calmness as I noticed in the listing of pages.

I could avoid the reading of an encyclopedia and magazine articles again, but I wanted to know about the American part. Verne imagines that a political rally, which in San Francisco in the plot, comes to end with fighting and shooting. It perceives that only criminals visit them and bring a melee weapon, which are leaded sticks and clubs in this novel. Fix becomes trampled by crowd, but only his clothes were torn. Taking a train will have a meeting with a Mormon who has a peculiar characterization in his calm face expressed anger. He criticizes a government for being against of polygamy and screamingly calls to accept his faith. In the chapters after that, Fogg wants to destroy a ship, and that makes its captain enraged, but, the protagonist changes his mind by giving money. There Verne claims: “No true American can fail to be moved by the sight of $60,000”. My research of the French writer’s books revealed he doesn’t let go of writing evil about this country. Robur the Conqueror, whose titular personage invented a flying machine, kidnaps a few Americans who reject his invention and prefer balloons. They want to destroy his plane and are ready to do it without sparing lives. The Chase of the Golden Meteor–which was one of Verne’s unfinished novels and, as any of them, it was completed and rewritten by his son Michel, who eradicated all darkness, in which his father was always interested, and turned all these books with positive finals–is about two greedy Americans in a small town arguing who saw a meteor first.

I made researches with Verne’s books. His writing quality could become a pulp fiction: The Steam House has a mad wife presented as a gang leader instilling fear, and she becomes normal at the right moment; or this novel’s heroes were supposed to be killed, but only roped, despite these Indians weren’t merciful in reality (it occurs after Siege of Cawnpore where fighting for independence from British rule locals under leadership of Nana Sahib didn’t spare English people) and, being a usual in the French writer’s books, deus ex machina works often there. Another pulp in Michael Strogoff, in which a hero was punished with a glowing blade that hit his eyes and he should have become blind if not prevention by his tears. Furthermore, Verne was dishonest in that his The Ice Sphinx was an unauthorized writing of continuation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. I couldn’t except anything hopeful with Around the World in Eighty Days, but all this idea thing with the plot was excellent despite the French writer never realized that what presented as wonderful. I closed that novel, after which I didn’t need to read Jules Verne’s books more.