Review Of Jamaica Kincaid's Essay 'The Ugly Tourist'

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“A tourist is an ugly human being. You are not an ugly person all the time; you are not an ugly person ordinarily; you are not an ugly person day to day.” These are the words that Jamaica Kincaid says about tourists. Kincaid believes that her opinion should be heard about how tourism ruins the cultural feel of different Throughout the essay Jamaica Kincaid inform and persuade the readers about tourism, Kincaid uses pathos and ethos to appeal to the audience, and how you can confirm the author’s argument. Jamaica Kincaid conveys her opinions about tourists and how ugly they can be. “A tourist is an ugly human being,” is used as the attention getter and used as a shock factor throughout the entire story line. Kincaid wants the reader and/or …show more content…

Because Kincaid is trying to persuade the readers not to be that ugly tourist that everybody hates. He uses tactical logistical reasoning as to why the reader should not travel. Kincaid refuses to let the readers look away from the real life situations and problems of tourism. Kincaid also uses the appeal of pathos as a way to get his point across. He goes as far as to mention that the natives of the places you are traveling to, are too poor to travel outside of their everyday life and tries to make you feel for the natives even more when he says “every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression…”. He tries to rope you in and make you feel bad for touring to a place where there are underlying suffrage, that you do not know is happening. Kincaid provides the readers with strong evidence on why tourism is awful. She states in tourist can get trapped in the “grass is always greener on the other side” effect. He uses this to his advantage when he talks about how miserable you are at your paying job, at your house with working plumbing, at home with your family and friends, and then goes over to the unknown and become another ‘rich’ face to the ‘poor’ and ‘sad’ faces in that

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