Read the four letters to start the book and answer the questions below.
Letter 1.
1. What does Walton want to discover in the arctic?
2. In what career did Walton fail?
3. What has Walton been doing to prepare himself for his arctic exploration?
4. What does Walton plan to do in Archangel (another city in Russia) and thereafter?
Letter 2.
5. What does Walton say about his education? What problems does he see with it?
6. To what literary work does Walton attribute his attachment to and passionate enthusiasm for the dangerous mysteries of the ocean? How will he be different from its main character?
Letter 3.
7. How does Walton say he will be when he encounters danger?
Letter 4
8. Walton describes how his crew helped an emaciated, exhausted man. What did the man say he had been doing in the arctic?
9. How does Walton feel about the man they rescued? What reasons does he give?
Letter 1.
1. What does Walton want to discover
-Walton want to discover new routes , study earth magnetism, and discover territory brand new
2. In what career did Walton fail?
-Walton was a poet man
3. What has Walton been doing to prepare himself for his arctic exploration?
-He dedicated his time and work very hard to study his math at night
Letter 2.
5. What does Walton say about his education? What problems does he see with it?
-He mentions that he has always lacked studies, however he has always been a man who likes to read and literature
6. To what literary work does Walton attribute his attachment to and passionate enthusiasm for the dangerous mysteries of the ocean? How will he be different from its main character?
-He always had his uncle's extended library available, and based on this he forged his studies
Letter 3.
7. How does Walton say he will be when he encounters danger?
-He says he was gonna be prudent and.
Letter 4
8. Walton describes how his crew helped an emaciated, exhausted man. What did the man say he had been doing in the arctic?
-he was looking for the person who fled from him