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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
by MonaA chapter-based read-along of Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days in George Makepeace Towle’s translation. Follow Fogg’s route, test interpretations against the narrative, and examine character, suspense, empire, and the calendar puzzle.
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Setting Out
Lesson 1
Could You Actually Do It in 1872?
Test the eighty-day wager through the original Chapter III itinerary and the debate at the Reform Club.
StartLesson 2
The Man Who Lived Like a Clock
Read Chapters I–VII. Analyze how Verne builds Fogg's character through routines and what is left unsaid.
Locked till you take the prior lessonLesson 3
The Empire Under the Wheels
Read through Chapter X and examine how transport, policing, and imperial power shape the journey.
Locked till you take the prior lessonThe Journey East
Lesson 4
A Detour Through the Jungle
Read Chapters XI–XIII. Explain how the incomplete railway and the rescue disrupt Fogg's schedule and why he accepts the cost.
Locked till you take the prior lessonLesson 5
The Woman Who Joins the Bet
Read Chapters XIV–XVIII and trace what Aouda’s presence reveals about care, choice, and Fogg.
Locked till you take the prior lessonLesson 6
Trust, Tricks, and a Missed Boat
Revisit Chapters VIII and XVI–XVIII with a knowledge chart for the reader, Fix, Passepartout, and Fogg. Define dramatic irony and locate it in specific scenes from chapters 14–18.
Locked till you take the prior lessonLesson 7
Lost in Yokohama
Read Chapters XIX–XXIII: a trap in Hong Kong splits the travelers, and two journeys lead to Yokohama.
Locked till you take the prior lessonThe Race Home
Lesson 8
Full Steam Across America
Read Chapters XXIV–XXX and compare technology, judgment, and Fogg’s choice to rescue Passepartout.
Locked till you take the prior lessonLesson 9
Burning the Ship to Win
Read Chapters XXXI–XXXIV and weigh Fogg’s choices as the journey appears to end in defeat.
Locked till you take the prior lessonLesson 10
The Strangest Ending in Adventure Fiction
Finish Chapters XXXV–XXXVII. Trace the clues Verne planted for the extra-day twist and judge whether the surprise is fair.
Locked till you take the prior lessonReading Like a Writer
Lesson 11
How Verne Keeps You Turning Pages
With the novel finished, compare the itinerary and debate in III, the railway interruption in XI, Fix's trap in XIX, the apparent defeat in XXXIV, and the club scene in XXXVI. Compare several suspense mechanisms across the novel.
Locked till you take the prior lessonLesson 12
The Day the Earth Gave Back
Revisit Chapters VIII, XXIV, and XXXVII. Calculate the cumulative calendar adjustment from longitude.
Locked till you take the prior lessonLesson 13
Who Really Won the Wager?
Build a whole-book interpretation using Chapters I, XII, XXX, XXXV, and XXXVII as close-reading anchors. Construct a debatable claim about the novel's meaning supported by evidence from at least three parts of the book.
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