PART II: A VOYAGE TO BROBDINGNAB. Chapter 1

June, 1702, Gulliver's ship travels through many storms for a year. Needing fresh water, they stop at land. Gulliver gets left behind while the sailors are chased back to their ship by a giant man. Gulliver tries to hide in a corn field but eventually gets picked up. He compares how creatures are perceived to be more savage and cruel in proportion to their size. He is frightened! He is lifted about 60 feet from the ground and gently placed in a giant's pocket. (He should be able to relate to this!) He talks, bows, and offers gold to the giant farmer. The farmer takes him home and places him on a table 30 feet off the ground. He's given food and drink. One of the children pick him up so the father makes him leave the table but Gulliver convinces the farmer that it was OK and that the boy should be pardoned for his curiosity. A cat, sitting on the wife's lap, ignores him. Gulliver watches the wife breastfeed a baby and compares how hideous her breasts looked - spots, freckles, pimples etc. as compared to the Lilliputian's flawless features (because he couldn't see them but they were there!). Gulliver is put to bed and then attacked by two rats. He kills one and wounds the other with his knife. The wife returns and puts him out in the garden to "discharge the necessities of nature."