Parents and children *** How to read tabloids and write a book titled "Captain Grant's Children". 10 points for good answers.

The Duncan, a new ship of the Scottish aristocrat Sir Glenarvan, caught a shark during its trial voyage. The sailors found a drift bottle in the shark's belly. The letter in the bottle was blurred by the sea water. Unclear. According to the remaining handwriting, it can be inferred that this is a distress letter sent by a captain named Grant two years ago. He was trapped somewhere at the 37° south latitude. Sir Glenarvan turned to the English navy for help in rescuing Captain Grant, but to no avail. At the request of Captain Grant's children, Mary and Robert, he decided to set sail on his Duncan to search. In addition to Mary and Robert, they were accompanied by Glenarvan's wife Helen, her friend Colonel MacNabbs, and the French geographer Paganel who mistakenly boarded the Duncan due to carelessness. They searched all the land at 37 degrees south latitude: Chile and Argentina in South America, the interior of Australia, and New Zealand. They were surrounded by dangers along the way. They climbed mountains and glaciers but encountered sudden earthquakes, crossed grasslands and encountered droughts and floods, and encountered wild beasts on land and sea. Storm, who was nearly killed because of being a traitor, was captured by cannibal natives and almost became a sacrifice. In the end, he was rescued at the moment when the boat was ruined, and finally found Captain Grant on an uninhabited island and successfully returned to Scotland. This is a novel about the Scottish national spirit, but the author is a Frenchman. However, Paganel, a French geographer in the novel, is so funny: he mistakenly boarded the "Duncan" on the wrong ship, and then made the mistake together to find Captain Grant, and thus embarked on a special journey. "Adventure Experience". Along the way, he was still careless and made many mistakes. He planned to learn Spanish but ended up learning Portuguese; he reinterpreted the address information in the bottle "without a doubt" over and over again, but in the end he found that he had forgotten to use it. His native French explained another name for the deserted island; he even wrote the wrong address when writing a letter asking for help. Australia spelled New Zealand, but everyone was rescued because of the mistake. However, the author also made a big joke for him. When he was captured by the natives in New Zealand, his whole body was tattooed with marks from feet to shoulders, but he was given a beautiful and rich wife as a reward for his exploration. What a huge contribution it has made. The novel is named "Captain Grant's Children", but it is not just Captain Grant's daughter Mary and son Robert as the protagonists. Even Sir Glenarvan is not the protagonist of the novel. Captain Grant's shipwreck originated from his ambition as a son of Scotland: to find an immigration area that belongs entirely to Scotland for his dear motherland, so that it can enjoy the independence and happiness that it cannot enjoy in Europe. The beginning of the novel describes Sir Glenarvan's "Scottish complex" as a Scotsman, as well as the contradiction between Scotland and England. Therefore, the "children of Captain Grant" referred to in the novel should refer to all the Scots who support and inherit Grant's "Scottish spirit". The novel does seem a bit difficult, so at first I didn’t think my ten-year-old son, who is in the fourth grade of elementary school, could read it. The novel is about navigation, so it requires a minimum knowledge of geography to sort out the clues for the development of the story. Moreover, there are large sections of the history of navigation and exploration in the novel told by geographers, which makes the story very complicated and reduces the readability. During their "expedition", geographers also explained a lot of geographical knowledge, meteorological knowledge, animal and plant knowledge, customs, social evolution, etc. This knowledge greatly enriched the readers' encyclopedic knowledge. The description of the sentences is also very beautiful, but it also adds too much space, making the ups and downs of the story less compact. However, after reading the entire book, I overall felt good.

Especially the "dramatic" ending!