Like you, I decided to write about "The Paid Piper" by Grant Stoddard. Even though you compared it with "The Pippiest Place on Earth" by Sam Anderson and I compared it with "Bombing Sarajevo" by Dimiter Kenarov, I think you made a better choice than me because they "The Paid Piper" and "The Pippiest Place on Earth" have more things in common, which I did not see when I read both of the essays. I really like how you start your essay by saying " In this section it is hard to understand the reason for travel or lack there of. In The Paid Piper Grant Stoddard discusses his own home of New York rather than describing a travel experience. He is trying to show us as readers what to expect when traveling to New York. He takes a different
