Monday, October 7, 2013

"How I Learned to Love Traveling Solo" by Cate Hunston details the author's experiences with traveling alone and is written as a guide do it too. Personally I've always been quite unsociable and so a guide on how to travel alone is rather meaningless to me; I don't have anyone I would want to travel with anyway. A guide on how for traveling in general would be much more appropriate. As an educational narrative and a blog post it follows a similar pattern as some of the earlier narratives I've read. Everything is in very specific sections, rather than written in say, paragraph form. These sections are pertinent and no attempt is really made at linking them together; they're all just about the same topic overall.

One problem with this article is that traveling, to the author, seems to be pretty much just a hobby. One key aspect of most of the other educational narratives is that they're all talking about learning something that is very important to the author. Basic education, or perhaps programming computers to someone who works as a programmer, are crucial. Malcom X wouldn't be commonly known name if he was illiterate. The author of this article, on the other hand? She'd probably still be writing articles if she never spent a day in her life traveling solo.

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