also was very influential in shaping Gulliver's mind as to how he viewed his family and friends that he left behind. In a chapter Gulliver states " when I thought of my family, my friends, my countryman, or human race in general, I considered them as they really were, yahoos in shape and disposition, perhaps a little more civilized, and qualified with the gift of speech; but making no other use of reason then to improve and multiply those vices. (p. 243) More and more Gulliver comes to the conclusion that he despises ALL of which he comes from and vows not to fall into the same evils again.There is a time when Gulliver looked at his reflection in the lake and turned away in horror at what he saw. As he immersed himself in the culture of the Houyhnhnms, he looked up at them with delight and he tried to imitate their every move to be more like them and to take on their character and style in every way he could and the friends that he developed within the community had even told him that trotted like a horse. I think that this is where he began to make his final transformation from Yahoo to Houyhnhnm.I think the most devastating act by the Houyhnhnms took place when there was a discussion by the Grand Assemblies to "exterminate the yahoos from the face of the Earth." I think that by Gulliver explaining in great detail the system of government and the ways the more advanced yahoos went about plundering and killing innocent cultures gave even more validity to the decision by the Assembly to even consider the proposal but strangely they were not considering Gulliver for this fate only the yahoos that inhabited their land. I think it could have been our of fear that the yahoos of their land could develop into the yahoos of Gulliver's if given enough time to grow and develop. When I take a further look at the proposal I do not disagree with the position of the Houyhnhnms due to the simple fact that they have been told of a even greater th...
