Professor Lidenbrock discovers a coded message describing a way to travel to the center of the Earth. He and his nephew Axel, along with their guide Hans, enter a volcanic crater in Iceland and have several adventures as they journey underground, facing dangers and seeing prehistoric life. They eventually blast through a rock blockade, which causes a flood that sweeps them down into a volcanic vent. They are ejected from the vent on the island of Stromboli, having traveled over 3,000 miles inside the Earth.

1. SYNOPSIS

2. Journey to the Centre of The Earth is an
adventurous science fiction. Professor Lidenbrock
discovers a coded message in an ancient manuscript
about a way to get into the centre of the Earth
through a mountain in Iceland. After decoding the
message ,Lidenbrock and Axel set off to Iceland to
begin their journey to the centre of the Earth.
There they hire an Icelandic guide, Hans Bjelke to
help them on their journey. Professor Lidenbrock,
Axel and Hans Bjelke find and enter the volcanic
crater that marks the entrance to the centre of the
Earth. Inside they face several difficulties and see
a lot of strange things, including prehistoric life.

3. They reach a vast underground cavern filled with a
deep ocean, surrounded by a coastline. The travelers
build a raft and set sail on the ocean and reach a
coastline. They enter a passage that they assume is
the way ahead but discover that it is blocked by
cave-in. They blast the rock but the explosion causes
the sea to rush in. They are swept into a large vent
filling with water and magma and are ejected onto
the surface. When they regain consciousness, they
find out that they are on the island of Stromboli in
Italy. The travelers return home to Germany. In
Germany they are treated like heroes and Professor
Lidenbrock's achievements are recognised. Axel
marries Gretchen, and Hans eventually returns to
Iceland.

4. PLOT

5. EXPOSITION
 Professor Lidenbrock and his nephew, Axel, decoded a
message written 300 years ago by a famous Icelandic
explorer, Arne Saknussemm.
 In his coded message, Arne Saknussem wrote that he
had been to the centre of the earth and he went on to
describe how he did it.
 Brushing aside the concerns of his nephew, the
Professorinsists that Axel accompany him on the
expedition. Sadly, Axel takes his leave from his beloved
Gretchen.
 Professor Lindenbrock and Axel travel for ten days by
ship before reaching Iceland. ProfessorLidenbrock
employs, Hans Bjelke, as their guide on their adventure.
 Ten days later, on Monday, June 29th, they reach the
top of Mount Sneffel. The shadowof the afternoon sun
shows which crater they should descend.

6. RISING ACTION
The trio descend into the crater and they travel
downward until they reach the bottom of the pit. There are
two tunnels and the Professor chooses the one on the right.
After several days trekking underground and almost out of
water, they have to retrace their steps because the path leads
to a dead end.
Axel collapses and assumes they will return to the surface
after returning to the beginning of the two tunnels.
Then, they descend into the second tunnel and emerge
into a chamber of clear white mica. The chamber resembles a
giant diamond cavern.
Hans finds an underground river and they quench their
thirst. By the next evening the professorestimates their
position tobe 90 miles southeast of Mount Sneffels and eight
miles deep.
Axel finds himself alone. In desperation he retraces his
steps but becomes hopelessly lost.

7. CLIMAX
• Axel is reunited with his uncle and Hans and meets Lidenbrock
Sea. They then found a forest of giant mushrooms.
• They also see ferns as tall as trees and a mastodonskeleton.
• The Professor decides that they must cross the ocean. Hans
builds a raft from giant reeds and a sail from a sleeping rug.
• They push out to sea leaving behind the shore which they named
Port Gretchen.
• Hans drops a hook and soon a fish is caught.
• The professor wants to learn the depth of the sea so Hans
attaches a pick axe to a long rope and throws it overboard. When Hans
retrieves the pickaxe it bears marks that look like teeth.
• Two huge sea monsters surface, battle and almost swamp the
raft.
• A storm hits them and they have been carried back to the same
shore from which they left.

8. FALLING ACTION
The travelers continue to explore the coastline, and
find a passageway marked by Saknussemm. However, it is
blocked.
The adventurers plan to blast the rock with gun cotton
and paddle out to sea to escape the blast. However, they
discover that behind the rockfall was a seemingly bottomless
pit, not a passage to the center of the earth.
After spending hours being swept along at lightning
speeds by the water, the raft ends up inside a large volcanic
chimney filling with water and magma.
The three are rushed upwards, through stifling heat,
and are ejected onto the surface from a side-vent of a
volcano. When they regain consciousness, they discover that
they have been ejected from the active volcano on the Isle
of Stromboli.

9. RESOLUTION
They land outside the volcano.
While making their way down, they learn
from a young shepherd that they are on the
island of Stromboli in Italy.
They have entered the earth by one
volcano and come out by another, over 3,000
miles apart.
Four months after discovering Arne
Saknussemm’s coded message, they return to
Hamburg where the trio are treated like
heroes and the Professor's achievements are
recognized.