Travel Journals

This week's reading were all about different places in the world, as told by Janet Flanner, Jamaica Kincaid, & Zora Neale Hurston. Each author wrote about a different location. The thing about the places is that I did not get enough about each place. Flanner wrote about her experiences in Paris. In the writings, she did mention briefly about Paris life, but mostly the writings were about the adaptions of Gide for the stage. I wanted more on Paris life, and less on the reviews of Gide's work. Kincaid was a little better. She did talk about New York City life, which was great. I did want more of it, and less of the letters to the editor. The letter was insightful because it offered the reader a glimpse of what an outsider is experiencing. But I just did not care for it. However, the letters were a bit funny on the second reading, especially the one letter to the editor which described, in detail, everything that was grown in a lo9ng run-on sentence. Hurston was the best because it was about a subject that the author knew a lot about. I just didn't want the introductions to each piece. I wanted her own words to tell me of each place because anything else would be just awful.