Summary Of Traveling The World By Paul Theroux

Summary of the book
Traveling the world is something Paul Theroux did often and enjoyed it. Theroux traveled all over the world learning different cultures and learning from people. Paul Theroux did all this traveling but never traveled his homelands in America. This is the writings of Theroux and his findings while on an eye-opening experience traveling the deep south of America. Writing this book was an enlightenment of the troubles people face in the south. Writing it for the people that are blinded and do not know the real truth about the south. To any person that wants to read a book that has really good imagery about the south, this is it. This book is spot on about the real world and the troubles the south face. This book is so relevant

I believe he was trying to find out if America was still great. Traveling to the south he would see the many struggles that those Americans faced and how hard living was. Beaten up houses falling apart and could be blown down with a small breeze. People having drug problems every way he looks, trying to run away from their problems. Racism is a big problem as well traveling through the south. People saying blacks were the cause of there problems even the Asians were blamed. Gun problems as well as getting a gun and gun violence. Even poverty is a huge problem in the south that causes a huge amount of hardships. These are all things events that Theroux saw while traveling the South. Going back to the question that I believe that is being asked is if America is the best nation. With all these events I believe that Theroux has shown many Americans that America struggling with its own citizens. That America needs to worry about itself and take care of the people like in the south. That our homelands need more help then nations across that world. That America is so worried about helping and forgetting about our own

Hearing stories from good ole people on his travels. Seeing the poverty on the back hills of Arkansas. The neighborhoods in Alabama that had houses falling apart. The thing with Theroux data is that it could all be skewed because of the fact it is coming from himself and he could have let his feelings get in the way of his data. Then people could always lie when telling stories. Like the telephone game when someone tells someone something and it gets changed each time someone tells someone else. This could have definitely happened in the data that was collected from the people Theroux talked to. The strength of his data comes from the fact that most of it was what he saw. The people, builds, gun shops, and dirt roads that he followed in the south. This was the truth that he saw when