A_Journey_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth

A Journey to the Center of the Earth Plot Summary: Professor Hardwigg yells excitedly to Harry. Harry ran to the professor to find him sitting in front of a very old looking book, with yellowed pages and hand-made cover. Harry is starving, but forgets about it over the strange excitement. Harry asks Professor Hardwigg what all of the excitement is over so he explains: The book is an old Icelandic book written by Heims-Kringla, a very brilliant author from the twelfth century. Harry reaches over and grabs the book, and a manuscript written in a different hand falls out. The professor quickly discovers the author of it being Arne Saknussemm, a brilliant alchemist of the 16th century who was killed because of his views. The Professor and Harry can’t decode the document. The professor gets very frustrated and vows that he won’t eat or sleep until he decodes the parchment. After a while, even he gets frustrated with it and leaves the office in which they are working. Harry picks up the small document and looks at it as he smokes! from his pipe. He starts to get warm so he fans himself with the parchment, amazingly when he turned it upside down, he was able to easily harry, santiago, professor, old, hans, after, manolin, while, water, out, man, fish, started, sea, day, about, very, raft, next, looks, just, boy, because, young, way, story, one, off, life, however, himself, great, fishing, cave, book, around, tunnel, starts, santiago's, over, later, group, go, find, felt, conflicts, boat, war, walking, two