Literary Letter: Significance and Responsibilities of Travel Writers

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Dear classmate,
I hope you are doing fine. I thought it wise to share my course experience about travel writers with you. Travel writers are adventurers who experience travelling to different places and writing about their trips. Marry Louise Pratt is one of the many travel writers globally. She authored "Imperial eyes: travel writing and transculturation". The book presents an investigation of how travel writing has constructed an image of the world beyond Europe for European readerships. The book centralizes on writing about South America and Africa concerning the economic and political expansion of Europe. It also presents various Latin American texts through the concept of neocolonialism. I found chapter 9, "From the Victoria Nyanza to the Sheraton San Salvador," more interesting. It details the experience of travelling from a third-world country in Africa to the United States. Therefore, like other travel writers, Pratt owes the residence of a place they write about the truth, fairness, and accurate information about their region. Pratt demonstrates honesty and fairness in her story creating a balanced reporting to the residents and the readers.
Travel writers owe truth, fairness, and accurate information to the residence of the place they write about. They are often self-employed, giving them the freedom to write about various aspects of the travel sector. Needless to say, other stakeholders exist despite the freedom the travel writers have. The residents and readers are the primary stakeholders who deserve truthful and balanced information from the travel writers. Everybody treasures their home and will always protect it at all costs. Travel writers visit places different from their home regions and often have predetermined expectations about the places they visit. These expectations play a significant role in the course of the story the travel writer writes about a place they visited. However, the residents deserve fair and just reporting, which is not influenced by the travel writer's prior expectations. This introduces the virtues of truth, honesty, fairness, and the dissemination of accurate information, which Pratt shows in her book. Being truthful means the travel writers are honest and share their experience rather than what they did not get yet was in their "expected" list. Pratt tells a balanced story in chapter 9 based on gender, the experience of various races and classes. This amounts to honesty, fairness, and sharing accurate information.
Pratt, in her book, adheres to most of the requirements a travel writer should have to the residence of a place and the readers. First, she uses past tense to write, which is a requiremen...