report of A journey to the earth地心游记、地心历险记读书报告.doc

Reading report of the book A journey to the center of the earth ------By Flora A Journey to the Center of the Earth is a classic science fiction by Jules Verne that remains as wonderfully popular and attractive today as when it was first published more than 120 years ago. Recognized as one of Jules Vernes finest novel, it contains that unique combination of believable science and wonderment that made Jules Verne the father of modern science fiction. From a scientific point of view, this story has not aged quite as well as other Verne stories, since most of his ideas about what the interior of the Earth contains have since been proven wrong. However, a redeeming point to the story is Vernes own belief, told within the novel from the viewpoint of a character, that the inside of the Earth does indeed differ from that which the characters encounter. Compared to his previous works, Verne takes a radically different way to tell the story by creating a 19-year-old boy who relates the events as his own adventures.  In the book, a strange German professor Otto Liedenbrock, discovered a paper from an ancient Icelandic book, which was left by a great sixteen century scientist and great traveler, Aren Saknussemm, and attempted to learn the meaning of the mysterious writings. He worked for a long time, but still couldn’t understand the real meaning. the professor locked everyone in the house and forced himself and the others to go without food until he cracked the code. His nephew, Axel, finally discovered the secret of the old Icelandic parchment, which tells of a hidden underground pathway leading to the center of the Earth. Although Axel had many doubts about the journey, his uncle, professor Liedenbrock persuaded him to join him on the trip, travelling to the Iceland, the deep into the Earth, where they discovered a new world of ancient animals, plants and an underground sea. In three months’ journey, they met many difficulties and frustrati