reat then the threat posted to them by the foreign yahoos. Reason calls for the elimination of evil. And that fact still remains that "no normal person can disobey reason without giving up his claim to be a rational creature"(P. 245)During the final days of Gulliver's stay with the Houyhnhnms, he is told that he would have to leave the island by his Master at the "exhortation" of the assembly within his Masters neighborhood. He is told that he will be given assistant to build a vessel to take him to another island where he could live out his life. As Gulliver left the island, he knew that it was the right and just thing to do for he was acting like one of them but was not truly one of them. As he left the island, the Master and his family stayed on the beach as long as they could to waive him on and said good by. It is interesting that throughout the Xth chapter Gulliver never talks about going back to his land or even to his family and children. The last five years have changed him so much that he cannot even think to go back to such a fateIn moving from theory to reality, (in terms of how his experience affected his state of mind) I think Gulliver's first experiences after leaving the island terrified him. From the savage people throwing a spear at him and wounding him in the leg to him being detained by Captain Mendez. These events horrified Gulliver and gave him a taste of what life will be like upon returning to his home in which Captain Mendez assisted in going back to. We can clearly see Gulliver's rejection to the norms of life amongst his native yahoos. This is expressed clearly in his interactions with the Captain and how he rejects the clothes of the Captain and insists on wearing the skins of rabbits and dried yahoo fabrics to display his contempt to return to the normal attire of his fellow yahoos. The most breath taking of all is when he first confronts his wife and kids for the first time and how at "the sight...
