IS A TOURIST AN UGLY THING?
[Document subtitle] prefess
Is a Tourist an Ugly Thing? A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid is an essay that begins with Kincaid lashing at the tourists that come from Europe and North America for their stay in Antigua. In the book she implies how the tourists are blinded by Antigua’s beauty and paradise that they don’t realize the flaws that lie beneath it all. Kincaid reveals her bitterness towards them and how she believes in that many of these tourists take their lives and the privilege to release their stress in Antigua. Her anger also resembles a bit of envy of the tourists for their freedom to do as they please in Antigua. The essay also moves on with the history which explains that Antigua has had many …show more content…
She explains how corrupt the government is in Antigua and doesn’t goes out of her own way to bring up whether Antigua would be better off as it was before when the British had control over Antigua. She used the thing that she was most dear to her as an example to illustrate the conditions of Antigua then and the conditions of it later on in her life. And that was the library:
…if you saw the old library, situated as it was, in a big, old wooden building painted a shade of yellow that was beautiful to people like me, with its wide veranda, its big, always open windows, its rows and rows of shelves filled with books, its beautiful wooden tables and chairs for sitting and reading… if you could see all of that in just on glimpse, you would see why my heart would break at the dung heap that now passes for a library in Antigua. (Kincaid, …show more content…
It is fair to say that it is one way to look at tourist and arguably the narrowest way to look at a tourist. It is understandable why she may feel with such aggression against these tourists when the money they pay for their leisure goes to a corrupt government, and how it is rather a sting to see tourists enjoying themselves in Antigua while the citizens struggle for survival their ground where it could not be any rockier. But it is not fair to hold a grudge against an individual that may not be aware of a serious situation, nor do they have control of where their money goes to. Not to mention it is only harder on whoever may feel resentment against others, and it is necessary to let go of past experiences. It is fair why she would be upset as a result of this issue, how is should the tourist know of all of these complications Antigua has? In addition the tourist cannot be blamed when the government is fully responsible for their actions. This is an inaccurate way to view the
[Document subtitle] prefess
Is a Tourist an Ugly Thing? A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid is an essay that begins with Kincaid lashing at the tourists that come from Europe and North America for their stay in Antigua. In the book she implies how the tourists are blinded by Antigua’s beauty and paradise that they don’t realize the flaws that lie beneath it all. Kincaid reveals her bitterness towards them and how she believes in that many of these tourists take their lives and the privilege to release their stress in Antigua. Her anger also resembles a bit of envy of the tourists for their freedom to do as they please in Antigua. The essay also moves on with the history which explains that Antigua has had many …show more content…
She explains how corrupt the government is in Antigua and doesn’t goes out of her own way to bring up whether Antigua would be better off as it was before when the British had control over Antigua. She used the thing that she was most dear to her as an example to illustrate the conditions of Antigua then and the conditions of it later on in her life. And that was the library:
…if you saw the old library, situated as it was, in a big, old wooden building painted a shade of yellow that was beautiful to people like me, with its wide veranda, its big, always open windows, its rows and rows of shelves filled with books, its beautiful wooden tables and chairs for sitting and reading… if you could see all of that in just on glimpse, you would see why my heart would break at the dung heap that now passes for a library in Antigua. (Kincaid, …show more content…
It is fair to say that it is one way to look at tourist and arguably the narrowest way to look at a tourist. It is understandable why she may feel with such aggression against these tourists when the money they pay for their leisure goes to a corrupt government, and how it is rather a sting to see tourists enjoying themselves in Antigua while the citizens struggle for survival their ground where it could not be any rockier. But it is not fair to hold a grudge against an individual that may not be aware of a serious situation, nor do they have control of where their money goes to. Not to mention it is only harder on whoever may feel resentment against others, and it is necessary to let go of past experiences. It is fair why she would be upset as a result of this issue, how is should the tourist know of all of these complications Antigua has? In addition the tourist cannot be blamed when the government is fully responsible for their actions. This is an inaccurate way to view the