Well, I want your help writing a poem summary that tells the story. It needs to be made up of quotes from the book.
I’ve got the following so far:
JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH By Jules Verne
My anxiety was to gain real knowledge of the earth.
He snatched up the document and gazed at it with a haggard eye.
And, scarcely pausing to wish anyone good-by, we started on our adventurous journey into the center of the earth.
Here we are in Iceland. Nothing more remains but to descend into the bowels of the earth.
But what does this word Sneffels mean?
The twin white summits of Sneffels rose to the clouds.
An immense field of lava came from the neighboring mountains, all extinct volcanoes.
The huge volcano which was the first stage of our daring experiment is above 5000 feet high.
Our real journey had now commenced.
Now, unknown and fearful dangers we were about to encounter.
The sides of the shaft were getting closer and closer together, we were approaching the regions of eternal night! And still we continued to descend!
We gazed through a succession of arches, its course very like the aisles of a Gothic Cathedral.
Water, where is it?
Our supply would certainly last not more than three days.
Then a stream, or rather jet, of water burst through the wall!
Suddenly halting and turning round, I found that I was alone.
No words in any human language can depict my utter despair. Lost!
All the world which had before vanished like a shadow floated before my vivid imagination.
I fell, a heavy inert mass, along the side of the tunnel, and lost all consciousness of existence.
It was my uncle, the Professor, who was speaking.
I heard a vague and indefinite murmur, like the ebb and flow of the waves.
“Sea voyage?” I cried, more bewildered than ever.
Here were white mushrooms, more than forty feet high, beneath them a gloomy and mystic darkness.
We are about to launch out upon an unknown sea.
Two liquid columns rose to a vast height above the level of the sea.
It is a colossal monster!
On one side the mighty crocodile, on the other the great sea serpent.
Our fate appears certain, fearful, and terrible.
These animals attacked one another with inconceivable fury.
Fortunately, the wind has allowed us to escape from the scene of the unparalleled and extraordinary struggle.
An island? I could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees.
Let us blow up the obstacle that stands in our way. Gunpowder!
We had consumed our last ounce of food.
An earthquake. I tell you that you are utterly mistaken. An eruption.
It is the only chance which remains for us ever escaping from the interior of the earth to the light of day.
Tongues of fire, sparkling and crackling, appeared about to lick us up.
The raft floated on the stream of hot lava, amidst a falling cloud of cinders.
Daylight at last.
