Tuesday, February 3, 2015

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (abridged)


I love 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. I just read it a few weeks ago. It's about these sailors and they're going to go try to discover what the monster is that lives 20,000 leagues under the sea. They get captured by a submarine, called the Nautilus, and inside there's like kitchens and bedrooms and sinks and living rooms and the people who lives on the ship like the captain, he's lived on that ship all his life. He's never been up in the air before. And that's the monster with the glowing eyes and crashes ships. The captain takes the men and forces them to stay on his submarine. It's not really a submarine, it's more like a ship that can go under the water. And so they're trying to escape and they go out to find the treasure down in the ocean and they found these big chests and the person who was the leader of the first ship, it was called the Abraham Lincoln, he had to lay down on the bottom of the ocean to take a nap and when he woke up there was a giant sea spider! The captain of the Nautilus was brave and he killed the spider. And then they found this cave and inside there was a giant shell and they opened up the shell and there was a giant pearl in it. The captain of the Nautilus said "Every year I come here and the pearl gets bigger and when it is just the right size I will take it." The end of the story is hard to write. They get stuck in a cove of rocks and another ship is surrounding them and the captain of the Nautilus opens up the door and shouts at the ship. And they escape into the island and the Nautilus gets destroyed and they finally make it back to the big city and they tell everyone that the monster is really a ship. The captain of the Abraham Lincoln keeps some of the money from the Nautilus and no one ever heard of him again.

I liked this book because it was good and it was my first book to be about the sea. I learned about cool rocks that are under the ocean.

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