Pg 60-80

While on the portage to the next train station, the guide and the 3 men come across a religious place, while observing the camp they notice that there will be an execution/sacrifice/ burning alive of a woman. They act and are able to get her out of the camp at the very last second. because on this when Mr. Fogg reach the temporary destination of Calcutta he is arrested and taken to court where he replies guilty and pays bail instead of the one week in jail and the fine. During the trial Jean falsely accuses the priests of the sacrifice in a pagoda in Bombay itself, he learned about these temples in his unwelcome tours he had conducted himself with his curiosity. This in turn frees the woman of the priests' grasps. I felt like these pages were the most interesting in the book so far because of the action planning and tying in all a lot of the information given earlier. I also couldn't help but feel intrigued why the group had delayed their travels slightly to help someone that was for all they could tell was participating in a foreign religious ceremony.

pages 40-60

While in Bombay Jean gets very curious and gets in a bit of trouble. They get on the train to go to Calcutta and meet a friend of Mr.Fogg. this man is Sir Francis, and he distinguished himself in the last Sepoy revolt. He too is going to Calcutta. they get mostly there when the train stops because there is no more track until a city close to Calcutta. The train was advertising from Bombay to Calcutta and no one was informed they would be traveling 50 miles to get on the other train. Mr. Fogg buys an elephant and hires a guide and they set off.
I felt that Jeans curiosity of the cultures was very immature and it could have cost Fogg his bet. I also find it interesting how he wasn't informed that 50 miles of track was incomplete and he would have to find his own way across. luckily he had two extra days to spare.

20-40

The two men depart and make it to Paris and then through some more cities until they get to the Suez Canal. Mr. Fix, the detective working on the bank robbery case, believes the robber is Mr. Fogg due to his passport ID given when Jean tries to find where he can get it visaed. they then set off for Bombay with Mr. Fix on there trail. Jean also likes talking to Mr.Fix which is even more deteriorating of Mr. Fogg if he is the bank robber.

I find this book to be very intriguing in the way that you are believing Mr. Fogg is the robber but then you change your mind slightly when Mr. Fogg is talking, but then it goes back to your previous opinion.

I personally feel that Mr. Fogg is the bank robber because he is said to have a vast fortune, but no one knows how he got it and he has a bunch of fresh bank notes that he is carrying.

Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days

Mr. Phileas Fogg, being the main character, gets a servant called Jean. While talking about a bank robbery with the other people in the Reform Club, the club that he is associated with, he gets into a bet that he can not go around the world in 80 days. The stakes are relatively high at 20 thousand quid. Jean and Mr. Fogg then depart for there epic journey against the clock.
I felt that the first 20 pages of this book and first twenty pages of the Pickwick Papers are somewhat parallel in the way they both show the boring lives of rich Englishmen of the time period.