In Gleich people are created in factories. "(...) Gleich was a small but beautiful island full of natives who were called Gargeois and had found out the way to build high skyscrapers without damaging the environment. Gulliver loved that place, however, there was a problem: all Gargeois were identical. (...) They had a unique personality: they were kind and competitive at the same time. They could be jealous and ambitious and finally, they were extremely reserved. There weren´t women in the island so babies were created in a factory. (...) Gulliver was going to abandon the city when some men captured him and took him to a prison where many people were caged. The mysterious men were actually the police and called the prisoners "nicht identisch". An old man told Gulliver that the factory where they were created had a virus and sometimes it created someone different. Those babies must be in a special jail until they die because they are defective. Gulliver couldn´t believe what the man told him. (...) They ran away and destroyed the factory so that everyone from that moment on could be different. In his last journey Gulliver learned something unforgettable. He learnt that our world is made up by millions of people who are different and that is possible because our differences make us unique and special. Trying to be another person won´t make us happy, because how would the world be if we were all the same? In my opinion, boring". (Marta G.)
Gulliver´s last voyage. "(...) Gulliver soon found out that the poor and misunderstood people were the ones who ruled while the rich and reasonable people were slaves who spent most of their time in cages. Long ago there had been a war and the rich people, called "Unfogians" drowned the misunderstood ones, called "Disongians". The Disongians survived and adapted themselves to live underwater. Then there was a tornado and the island where the Unfogians lived sank. They were captured by the Disongians and lost the war. The queen taught Gulliver their language and explained him everything, but he didn´t like the idea of of people living in cages. So, one night he set the Unfogians free. That choice was the mistake of his life, because they had been living in cages so long that the Unfogians had gone mad and wild. The second they left the cages they devoured him to death. That´s how Gulliver´s life and voyages ended". (Ana R.)
In Lisistrata women rule. "(...) 'Lisistrata', said an inhabitant of the island to Gulliver, 'is the name of a woman who lived many years ago. She was really intelligent. In those days, there were hundreds of wars and nobody knew what to do to stop them. (...) She said that those MEN in charge of goverments were the ones responsible for everything and they should be dead. She started a strike: women won´t allow any men to sleep with them until wars finished. I don´t know if it worked, but she influenced a lot of people and she was finally killed. (...) [Following her example] in our towns mayors started to be changed by mayoresses and little by little things have been changing until nowadays, where every important position is occupied by a woman'.
-'But', argued Gulliver, 'do they work properly? I mean, men are better qualified for important jobs and they know how things must be done'.
-(...)'Scientific research shows that women have the ability to retain more information in their brains than men. They know how to optimise their time and they are able to coordinate better than men (...)'.
-'Well, but who is going to take care of children all day if women are in such important positions? Who cleans the house? Who cooks?'
-'We both have short working periods and we alternate to do the chores and take the kids where they need'.(...)
And Gulliver left thinking how could such an amazing country be ruled by women. It was so strange for him. But finally he decided to stay. (...)
Sometimes you just need to give second chances and be open-minded, you may discover that women are almost superheroes. Everything thanks to Lisistrata". (Marta O.)
In Wh173 everything is perfect... (or not?). "Gulliver arrived to an island called Wh173 where everywhere he looked he could see how everyone was just exactly alike the rest. It was as if there was a huge printer which made more and more copies of a single design, one for men and another for women. (...) Considering that he would surely get lost in that place where everything was the same, he decided to ask for some information about it. (...) Gulliver was told that they were in a place in which people didn´t have names, they were just designed by numbers, as if it was a new videogame set in a future where robots ruled, they were also born with an already assigned job and couple for their future, as well as the house where they would stay. This was an idea of a ruler who thought that this way conflicts, poverty and inequalities would disappear, and they did, but people were unhappy. They had evolved to become also physically equal, and that had turned them into who they were, robot-like humans whose creativity and abstract thinking was in levels below zero, but whose greatest ambition was to be like "the originals". The "originals" were people like Gulliver and the couple he was talking to, the ones who had ideas, creativity and different ways of thinking and being. (...)
Gulliver had an idea, they would splash the whole island with the brightest and most beautiful colours they had ever seen, so that instead of walking through white streets and sleeping in white rooms, people would be able to see hapier colours which might spark their hidden imagination. (...) The results were better than anyone expected and people started making progresses in every field: science, art, literature, architecture, etc. Because in a world without differences, how could we progress?" (Ana Mª S.)
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