A small Place- Frist Chapter

     In the first chapter of the novel "A small place" , Antigua is described as if it was being narrated by a tourist's point of view. The place is described as a beautiful island where the sun always shines, which is exactly what the tourist is looking for because he or she is trying to escape from the cold. The tourist observes that the roads are really bad in this place and your driver is reckless. But like every tourist you do not know the story behind this place. You are not aware that the hospital and its doctors cannot be trusted or that the library is damaged. You watch a couple of mansions and expensive Japanese cars but you do not know that the water you  are using to bathe and to clean your teeth ends up in that beautiful water you lung to swim in. Neither are conscious that most of the food that you are eating comes from a plane from Miami.
      This lets us know that tourist the majority of times go to places without knowing its history or any kind of information about it. This is way natives laugh at your strangeness because you don't fit it in, you are not familiarized with their culture or customs. They think you are silly or have bad manners; they do not like you. This is why tourist feel out of place and a little foolish, when they are travelling. But we should always remember what this chapter tells us at the end... Every native is a tourist somewhere and every tourist is a native somewhere.