S-V-O Sentences and Such

In Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place, we discover how colonization has affected the identity of Antiguans, and how the people who are not from the colonized countries function as outsiders. Kincaid explains that outsiders try to gain an insider’s viewpoint by becoming tourists. However, when they become tourists they embrace, sometimes inadvertently, the distorted identities of formerly colonized countries.
Many people choose to go to tropical islands for an exotic, romantic, and relaxing experience away from the hum-drum of the everyday routine. Before going, tourists do research to learn about the culture of the people they are visiting. They read travel guides and research the country on the internet. However, they unfailingly learn about their destinations from sources created by people who want their money, and who advertise with the desire to draw them in. Tourists fail to see that what they read in the tourist guides is not the real thing. Huge hotels with swimming pools, adventure packages, and 4-star restaurants, advertising the beauty of the island and the quaintness of the people, only tell half the story. In all actuality, these hotels and descriptions are products of colonization and unsuccessful decolonization. In A Small Place, Jamaica Kincaid explores the different consequences of colonization and decolonization, and illustrates how the exotic island tourists envision is far from the one in existence; the one that is still suffering from the abuse of years of domination by a foreign power and the subsequent loss of identity.