A huge fellow with a red goatee, a ruddy complexion and broad shoulders, raises his fist over Mr. The opposing members become violent and Fogg’s group is caught in between. He is a brave and intelligent man and does his job well in conveying the passengers swiftly to Allahabad.Īt San Francisco Fogg, Fix and Aouda find themselves in Montgomery Street, which is crowded by the members of two opposing political parties. The engineer Andrew Stuart, the banker's John Sullinan & Samuel Fallentin, the brewer Thomas Flanagan and Gauthier Ralph and one of the governors Bank of England are Phileas Fogg’s partners at the Reform club.Ī bright looking young Parsee, offers to be the guide on the elephant which will take the travellers to Allahabad. John is a skilled sailor who takes the trio from Hong Kong to Shanghai so that Fogg is able to board the San Francisco boat. He is the master of the boat Tankadere, on which Fogg, Fix and Aouda travel. He accompanies Fogg from Bombay to Calcutta. She goes back with them to England, as she is unable to find her relative in Hong Kong. She has to marry an old King and when he dies, she has been asked to commit the sacrifice of her life as per the Hindu Tradition of that time. He tries to capture Fogg.Īouda is a Parsee Indian princess who is orphaned at an early age. He comes to the wrong conclusion that Fogg is the bank robber and is merely pretending to go around the world when his real purpose is to cheat the law. Passepartout attracts the reader with his loyalty, warmth and his sense of humour. He is loyal to his master and yet gets into situations that make his master’s plans difficult to travel around the world. He is an honest as well as a comic French man. His rationality, calmness, generosity and self-control appeal to the readers. He is challenged by a fellow gambler to go around the world in eighty days and he takes up the challenge. The hero and chief protagonist in the novel. Verne wrote widely popular series of adventure novels including Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, Verne has been the second most- translated author in the world. He was a 19 th century French novelist, poet, and playwright. 4.3 Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Gabriel Verne:
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