The purpose of this paper was the fact that Jamaica Kincaid felt as though tourism in the land are only seeing the greater good of the land that they were visiting. Tourists are not seeing the side where the native families are struggling to get by.
Are they trying to persuade the reader to adopt a new belief or habit, or to stop doing something?
Jamaica Kincaid is trying to persuade the readers of her essay to understand why tourism is such a bad thing. Throughout the essay, Kincaid, brings up a bunch of key points on why tourism is degrading to the natives. Much like how tourists tend to over-romanticized poverty. How the local’s homes, clothes, and bathrooms are worthy of your time. But, it’s not like tourists do not hate you either. Your bad manners, the way you speak, down to the the way you try to mimic their eating. ‘They do not like you’.
Are they trying to express a point of view?
Kincaid is trying to express her point of view on
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‘The Ugly Tourist’ was intended for what whom it sounds like it would be towards, the ugly tourists. This piece is intended for the toursists who go to the unknown, uneducated. By that, the author means the people who travel and try to fit in or do not even try and make a fool out of themselves and the natives to the land.
Which rhetorical appeals are they using?
Kincaid is using logo appeals in ‘The Ugly Tourist’. Because Kincaid is trying to persuade the readers not to be that ugly tourist that everybody hates. She uses tatical logistical reasoning as to why the reader should not travel. Kincaid refuses to let the readers look away from the real life situations and problems of tourism.
What evidence does the author provide?
Kincaid provides the readers with strong evidence on why tourism is bad. She states in the essay that tourists can get trapped in the “grass is always greener on the other side” effect. She uses her birth country, Antigua, as an example as