Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

A)
Why did Swift have the “small people” speak a different language. How did the language barrier affect the story? Would the story have been different if they could understand one another? What the story have progressed differently if they could understand each other? How to signals affect the relationships in the story?
Exerts that we will be using from the story will deal with the signals and signs that they used as a form of communication throughout the story such as when he moved his hand to his mouth to motion that he wanted food and drink.

B)
When we first started the assignment my group because we weren’t always on the same page when it came to picking a topic to convey to the class. After we discussed all of the possible views we could take, we came to the conclusion that it would be easiest to teach others about the language barrier because it was the most interesting to us. I learned that if you don’t understand the material and enjoy the topic it would be hard to convey the message and information to others.

C)
My group and I need to research the reasons why an author might make groups of people speak different languages in the story. I think that we need to approach the subject of the view of the “small” people who understood the signals and signs throughout the story.