Around The World In 80 Days [Video Lesson]
Channel: Sudhir Khullar
Date: 2020-07-12

From London to Suez in ship, the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia – the border and an easy route to Asia, hence from Suez to Bombay easily in a steamship, from Bombay to Calcutta in train and elephant, Calcutta to Hong Kong, from Hong Kong to Shanghai and from there to Yokohama, Yokohama to San Francisco in steamships, from San Francisco to New York City and from New York to London using ............. so many means of transport. All in 80 days using steamships, trains, elephants, horse carriages, hand cart,  wind-powered sledge, walking, running, and of course all with Mr. Fogg’s wit and grit. 
Dear Yuvakbharati English Book learners of Std. XII of Maharashtra Board, 
This video lesson is a complete narration of the novel written by Jules Gabriel Verne, originally written in French titled (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours).
Mr.Fogg's innermost reflections and personal feelings are never known to us as he is shown as a perfectionist, never compromising, calculative, discreet, enigmatic etc., readers witness that Mr. Fogg’s methods which keep a precise log of the dates and times of departures and arrivals, maps, winning instinct etc. have also constructed an inbuilt desire to love mankind. His machine like precision has an operating system which is inbuilt in every human being, which thinks, empathizes and rescues friends when required. Mr. Fogg's exacting as well as adventurous traits reveal his control over every aspect of his life. He never says or does anything he hasn't already considered from every factual angle. He is a good person who feels sorry for accompanying Mrs. Aouda to London as he had lost most of his fortune. He is a kind person because he couldn’t tolerate to see an Indian dogma we call as ‘Sati’. He is generous because he never inched ahead without his naughty assistant Passepartout. He is a good friend of his friends. He is witty because he proved it several times that he could conquer time. At the same time, as a normal person who is down in dumps, he could not calculate the concept of IDL, International Date Line, and when he did, he had ten minutes in hand, it was only and only for the honour and not money as the wager amount, that he appeared in the club to prove that he won the bet. He had lost 19000 pounds, but he won love of Mrs. Aouda and others, he won admiration of his own servant and the clumsiest person on the earth who was Mr. Fix.
The storyline in ‘Around the World in Eighty Day’s revolves around the fact that the world has advanced in transportation due to technology, specially trains and steam ships after industrial revolution. It also refers to the number of days in which the main character believes can traverse the globe with London as his start and end point. So, dear students the elements which attract our attention are money, wit and determination to win a bet, also give smooth way to symbols like clocks, circles, maps, ships, machines, trains, sledge, even elephant as means of transport and above all about Time and Space, oh yes! Also a brief titillating love story. He proved that time could be conquered. The novel is also apt to understand the cultural diversity – sights and sounds of various continents as is shown while circumnavigation. It’s like a documentary about the colonial world beyond Europe in the 19th century. Watch this video lesson as a travelogue, if you have already read it once as a marvel of science fiction.
I have borrowed from the 1989 mini-series Around the World in 80 Days by Pierce Brosnan.
Regards!
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