'A Thematic Analysis Of The Short Story The Cruise'

In todays society we have become more and more materialistic. Many people only focus on money, things to buy and how they look outwardly. But we are also judging each other on how fancy cars we have, how big houses we have or how nicely we look. Because of the increased wealth in the western side of the world it has created a gap between the financially blessed and the financially less fortunate classes of society. Along with the fact that people focus a lot on money, comes the fact that some people can’t help thinking about when they can get there inheritance. Some simply can’t wait until their loved ones pass away. Because of the technology nowadays, we can’t be sure to outlive our dearest. In the short story “The Cruise” which was published in 1991, the author focuses on the problem with our need for materialistic things and the fact that we want our inheritance as soon as possible. He/she deals with the increased materialism and greediness that we are facing today. The story and the author ask the question, if even the family relations have been corrupted by the power of money.

The children of the cruise passengers have never been lacking anything in their lives that money can’t buy because of their

Of course we don’t know the fact that the passengers are going to die until the end of the story. I also think that is why there are so many problems with the ship. They do not want to fix a ship, where people only are being transported to die. In a way this story is just like animals that are transported to the slaughterhouse. When we transport animals to the slaughterhouse they do not have to be transported in luxury, because they are going to die anyway. It is the same way in “The Cruise”. The cruise members and the captain do not care if they live in luxury on the ship, because they are just going to the “slaughterhouse” – they are just going to