Peter Jeremiah Sullivan Summerland

There are different types of traveling. We travel for vacationing and sight seeing, we travel because we want to get away from our daily routine, we travel to see our loved ones, to escape cold weather, to escape war and tyrant rulers, to look for a better life. Bedouin in the desert travel looking for water to sustain themselves and their livestock. In the two essays I’ve read “Summerland” written by Peter Jon Lindberg, and “A Prison, A Paradise” by John Jeremiah Sullivan. The writers narrate about their travel experience in a very eloquent way. In this essay I would like to explore, compare their personality, and why they chose to travel.

Right off the bat from reading the first and second paragraph in “Summerland” you can tell that Lindberg is describing a vacationing place. While Sullivan is narrating a new reality to him, Lindberg is …show more content…
The motive of Sullivan travel seems to be his wife. Since his wife is Cuban and his daughter is half Cuban, Sullivan gets sucked and gets involved in to the Cuban Issue. He sort joined the Cuban community and going through the ritual of becoming a Cuban by traveling there. Sullivan in his essay was narrating the struggle he faced and the struggles other Cubans faced. The purpose of his essay was to open our eyes to a political issue that has existed for a long period of time.

“A Prison, A Paradise” story is very emotional to read compare to “Summerland”. One can tell he deeply moved by the Cuban, and his wife’s family affairs. He tries to rely the story of every person in a sympathizing way despite the way some of the locals treated him. Nonetheless, he is deeply connected to his wife’s family and moved by their hospitality and pay close attention to every detail about them. Sullivan wanted to get the message across successfully, he wanted to share how a place half an hour away from Miami seem as its in the opposite side of the