Eating sugar In the short story, ”Eating Sugar” by Catherine Merriman, we are introduced to the theme of Xenophobia; the irrational fear of places or people that seem foreign to oneself. This is done as an indirect criticism of the prejudiced tendency of modern society, as people often seem to frown upon those who appear unfamiliar, and look at them as primitive and hostile. We are, through a third-person, non-omniscient narrator presented to a family of three, the father Alex and the mother Eileen
Words: 1416 - Pages: 6
Essay: ‘Eating Sugar’ by Catherine Merriman Travelling is something many people are dreaming about. They want to get away from what they know and learn about other cultures. But according to the writer William Cannon Hunter the meeting with other cultures often creates a gap between persons. Without a shared conversation, each participant in the host-tourist relationship relies upon their own linguistic script, identifying and maintaining a functional yet alienating perception of “us” versus
Words: 341 - Pages: 2
Eating Sugar A: Remember the feeling you might have had as a child, when you got lost from your parents in the shopping centre. In the crowd to a concert or maybe on the beach. Do you remember? It is a feeling of hopelessness. But the feeling you had, when you were found by your parents again was an indescribable feeling. A feeling which made you calm down. Exactly those feelings may the Englishman Alex associate with his holiday in Thailand. Together with Alex, is his wife Eileen, who finds
Words: 1375 - Pages: 6
Engelsk – Essay Task A The text Eating Sugar is a shortstory written by Catherine Merriman. The story takes place in a forest in Thailand during the Song Khran, which is the Thai New Year holiday and it takes place in April. The story is about an English family of three: Alex, the father, Eileen, the mother and Suzanne, the daughter. Alex and his wife Eileen had travelled to Thailand to visit their daughter Suzanne, who is an English teacher. They went inside a forest to look for a market,
Words: 1178 - Pages: 5
Eating sugar Try to imagine how you will react if a stranger starts talking to you at the supermarket. He could maybe ask you about something personal, like about your school or what you do for a living? In western we don´t usually go talking to a random person we don´t know, we stay to those people we know because we maybe are afraid. But what if he or she is a very nice person there just wants to have a nice conversation? He or she have maybe just moved to the town and tries to get some new
Words: 823 - Pages: 4
Eating Sugar - by Catherine Merriman (2001) Catherine Merriman has written the story Eating Sugar, which is about the couple Eileen and Alex and their twenty-one-year old daughter, Suzanne. Suzanne works as an English teacher in Thailand, and now her parents have come to visit her and join her in her week off work. It is obvious though, that none of the parents are very happy about Thailand. It says so in line 21, where Alex describes the vacation as ‘forced on them’. The three of them are on a
Words: 1235 - Pages: 5
Eating Sugar The short story written by Catherine Merriman named ”Eating Sugar, was originally published in ”Getting a life”, Honno, in 2001. A third person narrator tells the short story and furthermore the narrator is omniscient. It seems to me that the time is not important in this short story. On the contrary the environment, the surroundings, are described into details. In this analysis I have chosen to focus on the description of the surroundings, a short analysis of Eileen and Alex
Words: 1119 - Pages: 5
EATING SUGAR Meetings between cultures can be a demanding task for both. Tourists and natives. A culture can be described as learned human behavior patterns and differ between cultures. Those who have the resources (often money) can experience new cultures, but for many it can be a difficult step exploring the unknown. Furthermore communication can play an important role in recognizing and accepting new cultures, as well as socializing. Panic can develop against the unknown and this can form pre-judges
Words: 990 - Pages: 4
Eating Sugar It has always been easy to judge other people before you know them – much easier than it is to open up to a complete stranger. Every day we judge other people by the way they look, and especially people with different backgrounds than ourselves. But isn’t it wrong to make first-hand impressions before you know the person? It might turn out that it is a nice person with a great personality hidden under a different appearance. The short story Eating Sugar, written by Catherine Merriman
Words: 1376 - Pages: 6
Eating Sugar A. Hosts and tourists often have a certain distrust of each other. This is because the two parties often don’t actually spend time together. The relationship between the two is often brief and instead of looking at each encounter with a native or a tourist individually, it is very easy to sum it up as an “encounter with the other”. We all tend to create “others”, when we meet walls of difference, built by race, culture, and language. This view on tourism by William Cannon Hunter
Words: 1576 - Pages: 7
