So after going to Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa and Houyhnhnms, Gulliver reportedly visited a fifth country...
The silent metropolis... "When Gulliver got closer, he saw an enormous city. Full of big buildings, cars and lots of people. It was a metropolis. The people living there were very strange, they had big red eyes as if they´d been crying for a long time. Their heads were always looking down, never up. In both hands they they were carrying mobile phones, tablets or even laptops. Their fingers were quite long, as compared to Gulliver´s. Everything was grey, except the hundreds of screens all over the buildings, showing people, things to buy...
Gulliver tried talking to lots of people but no one answered him back, their heads were looking down. Some of them were talking by phone, but the rest never talked. It was quiet silent for a metropolis like that. No one was talking to another. They never opened their mouths. Gulliver thought that they may not even have a mouth to speak with. In their bags or even in their pockets they were carrying lots of cables. At a certain hour an enormous clock sounded. All the people stopped at the same time, took out a cable and plugged it to the thousands of sockets that were all over the street. Half an hour later all the people started walking again. (...)
Gulliver decided to go ro another place. Anything would be happier than staying there". (María O.)
In the Glowing Island... "After days of travelling by boat, running away from the Yahoos, Gulliver finally sees a small island. When he arrives in the island, excitement runs fast through his veins. The island is so pretty, so perfect. It´s ideal. (...) Everything is in perfect harmony. Gulliver decides that if the island is that pretty, people should be all happy. Everybody should get on well with each other and be as harmonic as the landscape they have. So he keeps walking in order to search for the beautiful island inhabitants. After a while, he starts to see cute small houses placed on the branches of small, thick trees. (...) Amazed, he watches a small creature walking out of the house. (...) He was called Glummy. Gulliver could see that inside the small creature there was a shiny star. He thought that it was a really cute creature. But he also could see that its expression wasn´t the one Gulliver would have expected. The small creature was sad. Or angry, he didn´t really know, but he wasn´t happy at all. (...) For that reason Gulliver decided to ask Glummy if there was something wrong in the island. He said there was nothing wrong, he just said that the "Starboys" and Stargirls" (the names of those creatures), were bored of living in that island. He explained that they all had good jobs, had children, good houses, love... But Glummy said that it wasn´t enough. (...) That was the moment when Gulliver realised how people always want more than they have. No matter if their lives are perfect. He also realised that especially people with a lot of money are the ones who always want more. nd the ones that don´t mind stealing it..." (Irene L.)
Visit now Fairy Oak, the cruel land where servants can be sentenced to death at the slightest incident, unless their life is bought with money... "First I thought it was a mistake to have come to this place but then I noticed how grateful I was for having lived this experience. Money changes everyone and it is truly sad to see how good people remember that help is possible only if there is money coming in. (...) Maybe money can buy nearly everything, but ethical values, humility, honesty and love will just be available for few kind people who knw how hard it is to find real feelings in such a world. (...)
Maybe that was the last trip Gulliver made, or maybe it wasn´t. We just surely know the message he got from that weird place. Everyone should be aware of their rights, never letting anyone treat them as household waste. Money doesn´t buy everything. We are all equal and special just they way we are". (Carolina M.)
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