Gulliver’s travels perceptive writing

 Summary: After obtaining his freedom, Gulliver requested to see Milendo, the capital of Lilliput. The Lilliputians were ordered to stay inside for their safety and they all watch Gulliver walk through their streets through their windows. The city is in the shape of a square with 500 feet long walls surrounding it, and can hold 500,000 people. The emperor wants Gulliver to see his palace in the center of the city, so Gulliver has to cut down trees to make himself a stool in order to see things from a shorter distance rather than standing.

About 2 weeks later a government official, Reldresal, comes to see him. He tells Gulliver that a rebel group and a foreign empire threaten the kingdom. The rebel group exists because the kingdom is divided into two sides, the Tramecksan and the Slamecksan, by which they are distinguishable by the heights of their heels.
Reldresal tells Gulliver that the current emperor has chosen to employ primarily Slamecksan, the low heels, in his administration. He follows up that the emperor himself has lower heels than all of his official but that his heir has one heel higher than the other giving him a bit of a hobble. At the same time, the Lilliputians fear an invasion from the Island of Blefuscu, the "Other Great Empire of the Universe", as Reldresal called them. Reldresal adds that the philosophers of Liliput do not Gulliver told them there were other countries in the world inhabited by people the same size as Gulliver and preferred to think that Gulliver dropped off the moon or from a star.








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