Maria Rafaela V.

Pelagio
Grade VI-Star

English
Ms. Maria Lya Fadallan

Around the World in Eighty Days

Jules Verne.
An Englishman, Phileas Fogg and his manservant, a Frenchman from Paris, Jean
Passepartout, prepares for travel around the world. The voyage is the result of a wager by Fogg
and his counterparts from the Reform Club. The men insist that Fogg cannot go around the
world in eighty days. They wager the amount of twenty-thousand pounds that Fogg will be
unable to return to the club, at the exact same time, eighty days later. Fogg agreed to the wager.
Fogg and Passepartout set out immediately for Paris by train. After departing by train,
Detective Fix, a London Police Investigator, insists that Fogg is the suspect in the robbery of the
Bank of England. Fogg has no idea that he is being pursued for robbery by the authorities. As
they arrived in Suez, his manservant confront Detective Fix on the quay, but failed to detain
them for Fix has no warrant of arrest. Fogg and his manservant continue on their voyage to
Aden and Bombay.
On their arrival in India, Fogg and Passepartout travel by train to Calcutta, but ran into
some trouble along the way. In the Indian Peninsula, Passepartout offends some priests in a
sacred Brahmin temple. Fogg rescues Princess Aouda, the wife of a deceased Parsee rajah,
from committing a forced suicide. With their new companion in tow, Fogg and Passepartout
leave India for Singapore and Hong Kong. Unknown to Fogg, Passepartout and Aouda, Fix has
been tagging along with them, and now proceeds to try to stop them at all costs. Fix gets
Passepartout drunk and leaves him behind in Hong Kong, while tagging along with Fogg and
Aouda on their dangerous journey from Hong Kong to Shanghai. Passepartout was able to
reunites with Fogg in Yokohama by boarding the steamer, Carnatic.
On the way to America, Passepartout and Fix agreed to help Fogg reach London. In San
Francisco they board a train to New York, encountering a number of obstacles: a massive herd
of bison crossing the tracks, a failing suspension bridge, and the train being attacked
by Sioux warriors. After uncoupling the locomotive from the carriages, Passepartout is
kidnapped by the Indians, but Fogg rescues him after American soldiers volunteer to help. They
continue by a wind powered sledge to Omaha, where they get a train to New York.
In New York, having missed the sailing of their ship, Fogg starts looking for an alternative
to cross the Atlantic Ocean. He finds a steamboat destined for Bordeaux, France. The captain
of the boat refuses to take them to Liverpool, Fogg consents to be taken to Bordeaux for $2000
per passenger. He then bribes the crew to mutiny and make course for Liverpool. Against
hurricane winds and going on full steam, the boat runs out of fuel after a few days. Fogg buys
the boat from the captain and has the crew burn all the wooden parts to keep up the steam.
They arrive at Queenstown, Ireland, in time to reach London before the deadline. Once
on British soil, Fix produces a warrant and arrests Fogg. A short time later, the
misunderstanding is cleared up, the actual robber, James Strand, was caught three days earlier
in Edinburgh. However, Fogg has missed the train and returns to London five minutes late,
certain he lost the wager.
Fogg apologizes to Aouda for bringing her with him, since he now has to live in poverty
and cannot support her. Aouda confesses that she loves him and asks him to marry her. He
calls for Passepartout to notify the minister. The following day, at the minister's office,
Passepartout learns that he is mistaken in the date, which he takes to be Sunday, December
22, but which is actually Saturday, December 21, because the party travelled eastward, gaining
a day. The wager can still be won, but there is very little time left.

Passepartout hurries to inform Fogg, who reaches the Reform Club just in time to win
the wager. Fogg marries Aouda, won the loyalty of Passepartout and the journey around the
world was completed in 80 days.