The Inkling Volume 3

Around the world in
eighty days review
By lorna gillings and jenny hall
Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure
fiction book by Jules Verne. It takes you around the
world with Phileas Fogg and his servant Jean Passepartout
as they try to prove that they can follow The Daily
Telegraph’s timings in order to get around the world in
eighty days starting in London and going through Suez,
Bombay, Calcutta, Victoria, Yokohama, San Francisco
and New York.
Along the way they encounter many challenges, such as
the plotting Detective Fix who believes Phileas Fogg is a
mastermind criminal responsible for the latest bank robbery…
and the thousands of pounds he is travelling with
only makes him more suspicious. However, this colossal
amount of money helps him in more than one: for example,
it helps them to pay for an elephant in order to
reach their destination after they discover the railway
suddenly ends. Through all of this, Phileas Fogg manages
to maintain his calm mind but the same can’t be said
for Passepartout who spends the whole time getting
frustrated at how nothing runs like clockwork as it’s
been timetabled to.
Upon returning to London, Phileas Fogg is arrested by a
victorious Detective Fix. All is resolved, however, when
Fix realises Phileas Fogg isn’t the true criminal, and they
find out that a man named James Strand had previously
been arrested in Edinburgh concerning the robbery.