20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne is one of those books that grabs your attention and it has you at the edge of your seat. Then the “supposed” climax comes and your waiting for something wonderful or amazing to happen. It makes the reader think so much about what might happen or what supernatural species will come out. But then it just drops you to the floor with a headache as they tell you it was just a submarine. A boring submarine to us, but at the time this book was placed there was no such thing as a submarine. Somebody at this time would have been amazed as we would have been as if there would be a monster or a supernatural species. My first thought was wow, how can I be reading a book that just made me so happy then so mad. But that may be what Jules Verne wanted us to do in order for us to go deep into his book. After Pierre Aronnax and the harpooner got rescued by the submarine they met Captain Nemo. This person didn’t want anything to do in the world anymore. He wanted to live his own true life. In the submarine itself he had everything you can possibly think of without all the things they had on land that affected people in the wrong way. The professor was impressed at how Nemo was living, and even the food was amazing to him. The sub even had an impressive library which Aronnax was impressed. The only thing was that they could not leave this boat ever. Even though this book dropped the excitement for a bit, it gives the reader many new things that go on under the sea. Exploring most of the time the seas, but that’s why they say we know more about outer space than we know about our own oceans. There will be a never ending focus on knowing everything that goes on under the sea, and this book can open people up to exploring the seas with newer and more sophisticated equipment and technologies.