John Lancaster mentioned the opposing critics views on tours in Dharavi, and shared his experience of the tour with a neutral tone to allow the reader to decide if they are pro-tours or not. He did not seem to focus so much on defending nor criticizing those who run the tours, but rather wants to look at the bigger picture that it could be more productive to argue over the living conditions the residents endure. During the tour, he trid to put himself in the residents shoes of how they would feel having strangers poking around while they were working, and became observative of the emotions expressed by the workers to try to read their thoughts on the matter. John did not claim to know all the answers to what is best for the residents, why …show more content…
At the begining of his writing he mentioned that he knew Christopher Way, who became the owner of the tour guides in Dharavi, but he remained unbiased and did not become derrogatory to those criticizing slum tourism. His argument revolves around his story of his tour experience in Dharavi, before coming to the conclusion that the residents did not seem to be bothered by the tours, and that some even seemed to be excited that their were tourist there to become educated about their hometown. He remained mindful of the guides proposition of trying to educate others on the town to break the stereotype that the town is not a slum simply because the residents are lazy, as well as trying to use tourism as an economic tactic to help elevate them out of poverty by donating 80 percent of its earnings to a charitable group located in Dharavi. On the other hand, he remained respectful of the residents situation by not diminishing the struggle they face;he doesn 't quickly declare that the residents are happy, but he tries to understand the residents situation by disagreeing witht hat statement and suggesting that they may not be exactly happy but just content as long as they get to stay in their hometown. Not only did he provide enough …show more content…
His main concern is that the debate over tourism should not overshadow the major problems, such as the lack of basic sanitation provided. If his writings ' purpose is to persuade the reader that tourism should not be the major debate over Dharavi, then he could have gone into further depth of the issues he saw while on his tour. His argument could have used his personal encounters during the tour, as well as the information provided by the tour guide, to present to the reader a list of things he believes would be of better use debated than tourism. He brought up a great point the residents health and living environment should be given more thought, but only mentioned one example and confined it to a sentence. In orfer for that statement to have a bigger impact on the reader, he would have needed to go in better depth of all the issues they face that outsiders may not know, and expand that into a few paragraphs. Also, his argument would still have been equally strong without the background information on Christopher Way; John discusses the places Christopher lived as well as his previous jobs, but that information could distract the reader from his main purpose of writing this
A traveling pilgrim deeply connects and explores the cultures they visit in the same way a spiritual tourist explores life's meaning and significance. In this way, spiritual pilgrims are made unique by their desire to find life purpose. As Falson's life begins to fall apart, he finds new life purpose through the study of St. Francis's Christ-like lifestyle of poverty and generosity. A reader can especially make this connection as Falson washes the genitals of a poor man and the impact it makes on him. Pilgrims studying history search for the purposes and deeper implications of each past event. They seek not just to know the facts but also their deeper
The number visiting has increased with the completion of the new A55 Expressway, which reduced the travelling time from Liverpool to Betws-y-Coed to less than one hour, thus meaning an increase in day visitors who are looking for a tranquil break from their bustling urban lives. The A55 Express... ... middle of paper ... ... -y-Coed To determine visitor opinion on the drawbacks of tourism in Betws-y-Coed, and also how successful the honeypot is at controlling tourism. I asked five visitors the following two questions, "What problems do you feel tourism brings to the area?"
...his journey to India. When St. John decided to propose to Jane, she denied because she felt that man and women cannot be married if they have no affections towards one another. However Jane accepts St. John request to go to India as a free woman and not his missionary wife. Jane once again want to be free and be able to make her on decisions and that how St. John influence Jane to be in the matter of time she spend away from Thornfield.
The first thing I realized during my tour was that I was really uncomfortable. Mary explained that the inpatient facility we were touring which houses male and female adolescents and young women was once before a hospital and that is exactly how it felt. The front entrance to the facility was welcoming, but as soon as we stepped through the doors from the waiting room into the facility it felt cold, plain and scary. During the tour, I witnessed patients taking naps in their rooms (with their doors open), adolescent patients talking together in the game room, and patients of the young women’s program having group. Mary gave a very detailed tour and explanation of their inpatient program.
Her evidence and use of pictures brought a sense of an image to this story’s timeline that she created for the reader. She successfully went through the Twentieth Century in complete order, and it gave a sense of organization to Schwartz’s writing, which ultimately led to an easier read for the audience. She makes her case by using factual information, primary sources, secondary sources, and images as sources to show the impact of tourism. She defines tourism in Cuba as an idiosyncratic industry that left influences throughout the history of this country. She in addition makes her case by describing the social change of tourist and the idea of tourism throughout the important decades for the
As the tours got longer and longer, questions were raised, mostly by the girls themselves, about the value of touring, co...
Of the lessons of this course, the distinction made between story and situation will be the most important legacy in my writing. I learned a great travel essay cannot be merely its situation: its place, time, and action. It requires a story, the reader’s internal “journey of discovery.” While the importance of establishing home, of balancing summary and scene, and other lessons impacted my writing, this assertion at least in my estimation the core argument of the course.
Walker Percy in his essay tells us that the experience of humans nowadays are very insignificant because of biased awareness. Percy thinks that humans lack the true experience while doing or going somewhere just because of the “beaten track”. A person can truly experience wonderful things just if they get off the beaten track. Percy writes, “It may be recovered by leaving the beaten track.” (Percy 299) Every time Percy is trying to tell this he proves it by giving various examples. His one example was how a tourist goes to see the Grand Canyon and has already a lot of preconceived expectations to that place. But when he reaches there he feels let down because all he assumed was wrong and just a fantasy. (298) Percy writes, “This dialectic of sightseeing cannot be taken into account by planners, for the object of the dialectic is nothing other than the subversion of the effort of the planners.” (Percy 300) the sightseer can only recover from all this by leaving the beaten track. (299)
In “A Small Place” by Jamaica Kincaid written in 1983, she intensely expresses her belief and annoyance about the tourist at the first sentence of the quotation: "That the native does not like the tourist is not hard to explain”. "The native" here implies herself and she explains that tourism is all about people finding a way to leave from their routine life and enjoying themselves, yet every tourist is a native of somewhere. People who live in their native place seem to be boring for them but for tourists that place are very attractive. In my experience as a native of my hometown and as a tourist, I disagree with Kincaid's argument. She is very subjective and biased since she does not reveal the tourists side of the story. She pulls people
Vargas-Sánchez, A., Porras-Bueno, N., Plaza-Mejía, M. 2011. Explaining Residents’ Attitudes to Tourism: Is a Universal Model Possible?, Annals of Tourism Research, Vol 38, Issue 2, pp. 460-80.
A lot of tourists would not think that they are offending the native residents when they travel. In the article, “The Ugly Tourist” excerpt from Jamaica Kincaid’s book, Small Place, she argues that when one is in a state of being a tourist, one does not know the depth of the place and only sees what one wants to see. Kincaid gives a strong idea of what she is arguing when she described a tourist as “an ugly human being.” She presents the emotional conflicts between tourist and the natives by evaluating their different lifestyles.
In part fictional and part autobiographical novel “A Small Place” published in 1988, Jamaica Kincaid offers a commentary on how the tenets of white superiority and ignorance seem to emerge naturally from white tourists. She establishes this by using the nameless “you” depicted in the story to elucidate the thoughts they have when visiting such formerly colonized islands. This inner mentality of the white tourists reveals how tourism is still a form of oppression for the natives of such formerly colonized tourists as it continues to exploit them. I will be focusing primarily on page 10 of the text to illustrate this.
...iance, readers are capable of seeing how citizens in the world today try to be independent of others and sustain their personal beliefs and philosophy. Individuals have to put an end to conformity and trying to be a duplication of everyone else because they will never achieve success if they never decide for themselves. A person must not rely on the judgment and minds of others and learn to think for him or herself since depending on others only exhibits a person’s inferiority to larger institutions. People must stop using travel as an excuse to evade personal problems because if they do not have a direct confrontation with the dilemma, trying to escape will only lengthen it. People in today’s society must appreciate this work so they will approve of their individuality and be stronger in fighting against everyone else that disagrees with their personal philosophy.
Nevertheless, inequality continues to be a major problem within cities and between rural and urban areas. Encompassing this situation is Katherine Boo’s novel Behind the Beautiful Forevers, which attempts to shine some light on the conditions of Mumbai’s informal settlements. Following the life of two rural migrant families residing in the Annawadi settlement, Boo highlights the everyday challenges individuals must fact to survive. As such, one of the major topics of the novel is inequality as a consequences of a lack of investment in basic needs, a matter of poor planning based on interest differences as well as corruption. Therefore, it can be argued that through her novel, Boo was able to successfully depict the how inequality has impacted the lives of those residing in informal settlements, with the fact that housing and land rights alone is an issue not being properly dealt
A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid presents the hypothetical story of a tourist visiting Antigua, the author’s hometown. Kincaid places the reader in the shoes of the tourist, and tells the tourist what he/she would see through his/her travels on the island. She paints a picturesque scene of the tourist’s view of Antigua, but stains the image with details of issues that most tourists overlook: the bad roads, the origin of the so-called native food, the inefficiency of the plumbing systems in resorts, and the glitches in the health care system. Kincaid was an established writer for The New Yorker when she wrote this book, and it can be safely assumed that majority of her readers had, at some point in their lives, been tourists. I have been a tourist so many times before and yet, I had never stopped to consider what happens behind the surface of the countries I visit until I read this essay. Kincaid aims to provoke her readers; her style of writing supports her goal and sets both her and her essay apart. To the reader, it sounds like Kincaid is attacking the beautiful island, pin-pointing the very things that we, as tourists, wish to ignore. No tourist wants to think about faeces from the several tourists in the hotel swimming alongside them in the oceans, nor do they want to think about having accidents and having to deal with the hospital. It seems so natural that a tourist would not consider these, and that is exactly what Kincaid has a problem with.