Next Stop Squalor John Lanchester Analysis

Nowadays, Tourism is the most popular attraction people like to go on when they visit a new place round the world. Some people take the basic tour of sitting in a bus and driving around the town, while others would rather put themselves in the actual environment. However tourism is carried out, you must take into consideration the boundaries that are in each new location. One of the biggest boundary crossing there is in tourism is poorism. Some believe that poorism is okay, because it isn 't something we see everyday and It is very educational. Or, some say that it is completely disrespectful and that those people deserve the privacy in their hard times. After reading a bunch of articles, we got to see many different sides of tourism, as well …show more content…
As Way is going through the tour he makes many comments about the whole experience. As the bus was driving through the town, Way experienced nothing like any other tour. He started to feel bad about himself and hopeless to the people around him. He noticed that they had very little and seemed very intimidated. As he saw a little kid playing all alone, he asks the driver if he could ask the boy how old he was. Now like any other tour around the world, tourists are welcome to ask, and do whatever they feel like doing. But the drivers response was “Pointed Questions are not part of his contact with the slums dwellers.” (134) When Way says “not part of his contract” that makes the reader feel as if the whole tour is not acceptable there, or they are only allowed to do certain things. Usually when a tour group is exploring a new environment, they are allowed to do as they please because it is acceptable. However in this situation, they are not allowed to interact with the people. Contracts are usually needed when people disagree about something or want rules set for what is allowed and disallowed. As the tour goes on, Christopher Way becomes very observant and points out certain things like how the kids are playing by gutters filled with human waste, and how the working condition these people were in were pretty brutal. “Not for the first time on the tour, I felt like an interloper, and i wondered how the slum workers and their families felt about white-skinned strangers who showed up to gawk from the threshold” (133) Tourism shouldn 't make you feel bad about yourself or others in the environment. You 're supposed to enjoy touring a new location and be amazed by the beauty of the world. Being one of those families in those kind of living conditions and having people being