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| "The End of the World"--the tip of Spain in Fisterra, in Spain |
As before, answer TWO of the questions below for class on Thursday. Also, try to look up words you don't know...we'll have a collaborative 'quiz' on some words before class that you can include in your questions.
Q1: Our first author used travel as an excuse to eat, and through eating, discover different people and cultures. Why does this author travel? What do you think he means when he writes, "I wanted to be in motion" (156).
Q2: Related to the above, why do you think the author is writing about the death (or suicide?) of a young German man he didn't even know? Why retrace his steps and meet his mother and write an article about him? How might this, too, be related to his reasons for traveling?
Q3: Though Max was German and from a town most of us can't pronounce, much less have ever heard of, what makes him similar to many young people today? Can you, as a college student, relate to some of his fears and anxieties? Why might the modern world be creating more Maxes than ever before?
Q4: In many ways, the best part of traveling is coming back home. How does writing this story allow the author to do this? Consider the end of the essay, when he writes, "For the first time in a long time, I didn't need to walk away. I didn't need to move. There was nowhere else to be" (163).
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