ESSAY CEMETERY

I The speaker/narrator addresses a tourist to Antigua. She points out discrepancies in the experience of being a tourist and living there. She walks through the tourist experience, from landing in Antigua to experiencing its various holiday offerings. She describes the corruption in the government, the bad education and health systems and relics from the day of British rule. She lays out the reasons for tourism and the difference between tourism and home life. II She tells of Antigua during British occupation. White people came and flourished in business, and excluded the Angtiguans or made them servants, which made them offensive to the natives. The natives thought the whites were being rude but years later the author came to understand that they were being racist. They partook in British traditions without understanding them and assumed that England was nicer than the Englishmen they encountered. The English are horrible because they took that which was not theirs to tak...

Jamaica Kincaid Style ·        Addressing the reader ·        Run on sentences ·        Sarcasm ·        Accusatory tone, hostility Themes ·        Discrepancy between living in Antigua and coming there as a tourist ·        Difference between Antigua and America ·        Cheating tourists ·        Search for authenticity ·        Government corruption in Antigua ·        The paradoxical influence of the british over Antiguans – they wanted and got independence but have deteriorated and become corrupted since ·        Racial guilt transferred down generations ·        Affluent people are forei...

Themes Attempt at objectivity (Mock) pleasure at being chosen Celebrity culture Fascination and intimidation by celebrities or educated people Everyone's going to Europe ·        Tourism is like home away from home When it rained the passengers had to stay in the house, of course—or at least the cabins ·        Writing is important part of travel but gets tedious some twenty or thirty gentlemen and ladies sat them down under the swaying lamps and for two or three hours wrote diligently in their journals. Alas! that journals so voluminously begun should come to so lame and impotent a conclusion as most of them did! I doubt if there is a single pilgrim of all that host but can show a hundred fair pages of journal concerning the first twenty days' voyaging in the Quaker City, and I am morally certain that not ten of the party can show twenty pages of journal for the succeeding twenty thousand miles o...

Chapter I Twain, in America, signs on to a steamer expedition to the Holy Land and many other locations. He shows mock excitement and mock intimidation at the celebrities that are to be on board. Chapter II Everyone seems to be going to Europe. The journey begins, and they spend the first few days miserable stranded on the ship in the port in a storm. Chapter III They finally embark on the voyage. The sea is rough and half the passengers are seasick. They amuse themselves with half-rate music. Chapter IV Quaker City's passengers are becoming accustomed to life aboard ship. They play games and low-key sports and dance. Many passengers start keeping a journal, an attempt which they soon abandon. They have a mock trial and pray and find other amusements. Chapter V After ten days, they reach the Azores islands, a Portuguese colony in the Atlantic. They let local guides lead them ashore and are followed around by unclean beggar locals. Blucher invites...