BEGINNING OF THE JOURNEY BEGINNING OF THE JOURNEY Sunday, 11 September 2011 BEGINNING OF THE JOURNEY They begins the journey via Lubeck and Copenhagen. They arrive in Reykjavik where the two procure the services of Hans Bjelke(a Danish hunter) as their guide, and travel overland to the base of the volcano. They reach the volcano in late June only to find that it has not one but three craters.

Rereading Saknussemm's message they understand that the passage to the centre of the Earth is through the one crater the shadow of a nearby mountain peak touches at noon. Unfortunately, this is only true for the last days of June and for the next days, with July rapidly approaching, the weather is too cloudy for any shadows. Axel thinks that will force his uncle to give up the project and return home. But on the last day, the sun comes out and the mountain peak shows the correct crater to take

PROFESSOR LIDENBROCK He is an old scientist who works at the University of Hamburg, in Germany. He is sixty-five years old. He wears small round glasses and that make him look very serious. He has got white hair and wrinkles on his face. He has got a strong personality and he is a hard- working person. He is also a man of astonishing impatience, and he wants to depart to Iceland immediately as soon as he discovers the information about the lost world and he takes his reluctant nephew Axel with him

AXEL He is Professor's nephew. He is young and intelligent. He is only nineteen years old and he is the Professor's personal assistant. He is tall and slim. He has got brown eyes and short wavy hair. He doesn't want to travel with his uncle. He tries to reason with him, explaining his fears of descending into a volcano and putting forward various scientific theories as to why the journey is impossible, but fails to make his uncle see his point of view

GRAUBEN She is Axel`s girlfriend. She is seventeen years old and she has got long blond hair and bright blue eyes. She lives in Germany. She is in love his Axel and she wants to marry Axel. When she hears about the journey she is very happy and she promises to wait for him. She knows that he will be famous like his uncle when he come back

Hans He is tall and very strong. He has small blue eyes and long red hair. He is the perfect guide for the job because he almost never smiles or talks.

CHAPTER 1 NAME : A STRANGE MESSAGE PLACEPLACE : GERMANY CHARACTERS : 1.PROFESSOR OTTO LIDENBROCK 2.AXEL: PROFESSOR’S NEPHEW 3.MARTHA

Otto Lidenbrock is a famous Professor of Geology at the University of Hamburg, in Germany and he is sixty-five years old he works with his nephew Axel who is his personal assistant. The Professor is a very hard working person so he never comes back home till two o'clock for lunch till one day… Martha is his maid and she is surprised because of his early come. He asks his nephew to go to the library and shows Axel a book he found in old book shop The book is seven hundred years old and it is about the old princess from Norway who came to live in Iceland and it is very special because it is written in a language no one uses anymore

Inside the book there was a yellow paper with some strange letters from a strange alphabet. on it which the professor could not read. The professor takes a dictionary and ask him to write down. The message was from Arne Saknussemm, a famous scientist, and it refers to a volcano at Sneffells Yokul. They have to go before the first of July because the sun will show the way to the centre of the earth. Then, the Professor orders Martha to buy two train tickets to Denmark …

CHAPTER 2 NAME :GRAUBEN PLACEPLACE : GERMANY CHARACTERS : 1.PROFESSOR OTTO LIDENBROCK 2.AXEL: PROFESSOR’S NEPHEW 3.GRAUBEN

Axel is very sad because he doesn't want to go with the professor. He is in love with Grauben and he wants to marry her. The Professor is a good man but he is only interested in science It is May 26th so they have a month to get to sneffels. They are going to Denmark by train and by boat to Iceland The whole trip is going to take twelve days, and then they have to walk to the volcano. When she hears about the journey she is very happy and she promises to wait for him. She knows that he will be famous like his uncle when he come back Axel is afraid of the journey because he thinks that they possible won’t come back

CHAPTER 3 NAME : ICELAND PLACEPLACE : ICELAND CHARACTERS : 1.PROFESSOR OTTO LIDENBROCK 2.AXEL: PROFESSOR’S NEPHEW 3.PROFESSOR FRIDIKSON 4.HANS

The journey to Iceland began very early in the morning and they can see the round body of the volcano from the boat. It has snow near the top. The boat stops in Reykjavik which has small brick houses. Professor Fridriksson, a professor from the University there, met them at the boat. Professor Lidenbrock doesn’t tell anyone the real reason of their journey because he wants Axel and him to be the only one to go to the centre of the Earth. But they need a guide because they don’t know the area. Mr Fridriksson finds them a guide called Hans. They stay in Mr Frederickson's house until they are ready to leave

equipment Rope for climbingEnough Tools Lights for six months Guns Medicines

departure The departure was from Reykjavik on June 15 th, early in the morning. They travelled along the sea and the journey took six days, and each day they stopped in a different village for the night. The volcano had its last explosion in They reached the top at eleven o'clock and they found a small place inside the opening of the volcano. Axel dreamt that he was lost and he was shot out of the volcano’s top like a rock

CHAPTER 4 NAME : INSIDE THE VOLCANO PLACEPLACE : ICELAND CHARACTERS : 1.PROFESSOR OTTO LIDENBROCK 2.AXEL: PROFESSOR’S NEPHEW 3.HANS

The mouth of the volcano was one mile wide and its inside looked like the inside of and ice-cream. The bottom was 2,000 feet down. They tied a rope around each other and began to climb down When they got to the bottom and looked up and saw the opening at the top it was a perfect circle of clear blue sky There were three holes in the floor of the volcano and each of them was about a hundred feet wide. They didn’t know which one was the correct so they remembered Arne Saknussemm’s words. He said the sun touches the right one at the end of June and that day was June the 25th and it was very cloudy they had to wait for a sunny day

Axel though that his uncle left the idea and they would go back home but he was wrong Hans built a small house from the large rocks he found on the floor of the volcano. He didn’t talk much but he always thought of something useful to do. There were drops of water from the ice and the snow outside ran down the wall. Professor Lidenbrock found the name of ¨Arne Saknussemm¨ written on the walls and he knew that they were in the right place The next day the sun came out at 1:13 pm and touched the right hole to the centre of the earth Hans threw the bags down in the hole but they never heard them hit the bottom because the hole was too narrow to go down with the bags

CHAPTER 5 NAME : LOST IN THE TUNNELS PLACEPLACE : INSIDE THE VOLCANO CHARACTERS : 1.PROFESSOR OTTO LIDENBROCK 2.AXEL: PROFESSOR’S NEPHEW 3.HANS

They began the climb down putting their ropes on the sides of the walls and every two hundred feet they found a flat rock to stop on. Hans went first, the Professor and the last one was Axel. They travelled 2,000 feet down for ten hours and they reached the bottom where there was an open space like a cave. It continued to the right and their bags were there. The next morning they continued their journey down. The hole opened and looked more like a tunnel through which they could walk down. They used their torches to see the walls clearly. They looked like glass of different colours. Some of it was red, some was brown, and some was yellow because or the lava

They walked for two more days and they found other tunnels. There were tunnels everywhere, and they didn’t know which was the right one. They were worried because their water finished. For this reason Axel offered to go to find a spring. There was a loud sound behind the wall next to them that sounded like the water of a river. Hans took a pickaxe and made a hole in the wall and water came out onto the floor The water need air abd it was could enough to drinkafter a few minutes

They continued the journey and Axel walked to far so he got lost. He couldn’t find the other or come back. Then he fell through the air down a long tunnel. He hit his head and he faint (everything went black around him)