The Paid Piper Grant Stooddard Analysis

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 route than others, which could be the “travel writing” in this piece.

Stoddard shows us a side of New York that we otherwise would not have experienced without his input. It is interesting to see how well a local knows their home and how easy it is to show people around. He is able to show a group of tourist how to spend a night out on the town, literally on the town’s dime, since they pay for nothing during this excursion. By showing a side of the city that otherwise would have gone unnoticed he makes this essay “travel writing.” It’s odd to think that showing strangers around your home is travel, but it is to them and even to you if you discover something that was one unseen. …show more content…
We are trusting Stoddard to bring us to a new place and show us how things work in a foreign city. Stoddard approach of travel writing is unique because he doesn’t bring you to a place unfamiliar to both him and us but rather brings us to a place he is fond