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Re: 20K - which chapts to skip? (sorry 4 the blasphemy)

From: Rick Walter <rick1walter~at~comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 22:55:41 -0700
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

Hi David--

The most skippable chapter BY FAR is II 7 -- lengthy catalogs of marine
fauna in the Mediterranean with a little vulcanism midway to break the
monotony.

Next your engineering majors engineers can feasibly duck these "traveling
chapters." (I.e., these are quiet interludes between the big adventure
scenes: the Nautilus logs some major mileage while its passengers while the
time away with oceanographic discussions.)

I 14 -- Our heroes learn Lacepede's scheme for classifying fish.

I 18 -- The Nautilus tours Oceania while Nemo and Aronnax discuss subsurface
currents.

I 19 -- Still in Oceania, N. & A. this time discuss a long-lost expedition.

II 1 -- Catalogs of marine fauna in the Indian Ocean.

II 4 -- Catalogs of marine fauna in the Red Sea.

II 17 -- Catalogs of marine fauna in the south Atlantic.

II 19 -- U.S. ichythology and meterology.

II 20 -- Catalogs of marine fauna in the north Atlantic.

As for the chapters your budding engineers absolutely MUST NOT MISS, they
are: I 12-13 (how the Nautilus works), I 15 (how the diving gear works), II
11 (how things could potentially go wrong) and II 15-16 (how things DO go
wrong).

I hope this is helpful. Best of luck and happy new year!

All the best,

Rick

Frederick Paul Walter
Albuquerque, New Mexico
(505) 821-5678




----- Original Message -----
From: "David Merchant" <merchant~at~latech.edu>
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 6:40 PM
Subject: 20K - which chapts to skip? (sorry 4 the blasphemy)


> Last Spring I used JCE for my second 102 class, this year I'll be using
> 20K - using the Miller and Walter translation as well as using parts of
> Dr. Chamberlin's incredible study guide for 20K. As we at LA Tech are on
> the quarter system (sigh) and as I need to cover other topics (short
> fiction, drama, and poetry), I have been advised that I should probably
> not have the students read the entire work (I remember having to read more
> when I was a Freshman, but then again, maybe my memory has exaggerated
> it). I figure I could always give a synopsis for each of the skipped
> chapters.
>
> Anyway, blasphemous as the question is, what chapters do ye learned
> scholars feel could be reluctantly skipped over (summarized by me) without
> losing the core essence of the tale?
>
> TTFN,
> David
>
> --
> Instructor, Department of English.
> Louisiana Tech University
>
Received on Wed 02 Jan 2008 - 07:55:46 IST

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