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Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist – The Meaning in a Nutshell

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Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist (1985)

Anne Tyler’s The Accidental Tourist (1985) is a novel about ordinary people who appear to be increasingly extraordinary as one learns more about their characters and their lives.

The story centres on Macon Leary’s journey of personal development. It begins by presenting him as being excessively introverted, too meticulously organised, and pessimistic. It concludes with him becoming more open to interacting meaningfully with the places and people he encounters, which enhances the quality of his life.

Parallel to this, Macon’s journey also involves him overcoming his depression that resulted from his grief over the loss of his son and subsequent broken marriage, a psychological condition that enhanced his already introverted nature and associated excessive behaviours. The novel involved him finding a new relationship with a bright, mercurial, optimistic woman, Muriel, whose presence helped him to become able to love again.

Anne Tyler seems to see the world in terms of dichotomies and compromises. She seems to see all relationships as somewhat imperfect, but she believes that the most rewarding relationships are those where different people complement each other in ways that bring out the best in each individual. Correspondingly, she implies that relationships that fail to do this should be reconsidered.

Nevertheless, Anne Tyler seems to believe that all relationships involve compromises. In each successful relationship depicted in the novel, each partner compromised to facilitate the formation of a viable and mutually satisfying bond.

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"Yes, that is my son," the man says, identifying the body in the intensive care unit. Grief threatens to break his face into pieces, and then something closes shut inside of him. He has always had a very controlled nature, fearful of emotion and revelation, but now a true ice age begins, and after a year his wife tells him she wants a divorce. It is because he cannot seem to feel anything.

"The Accidental Tourist" begins on that note of emotional sterility, and the whole movie is a journey toward a smile at the end.

The man's name is Macon Leary ( William Hurt ), and he writes travel books for people who detest traveling. He advises his readers on how to avoid human contact, where to find "American food" abroad and how to convince themselves they haven't left home. His own life is the same sort of journey, and maybe it began in childhood. His sister and two brothers still live together in the house where they were born, and any life outside of their routine would be unthinkable.

Macon's wife ( Kathleen Turner ) moves out, leaving him with the dog, Edward, who does like to travel and is deeply disturbed by the curious life his masters have provided for him. He barks at ghosts and snaps at strangers. It is time for Macon to make another one of his overseas research trips, so he takes the dog to be boarded at a kennel, and that's where he meets Muriel Pritchett ( Geena Davis ). Muriel has Macon's number from the moment he walks through the door. She can see he's a basket case, but she thinks she can help. She also thinks her young son needs a father.

Macon isn't so sure. He doesn't use the number she gives him. But later, when the dog trips him and he breaks his leg, he takes Edward back to the kennel, and this time he submits to a little obedience training of his own. He agrees to acknowledge that Muriel exists, and before long they are sort of living together (lust still exists in his body, but it lurks so far from the center of his feelings that sex hardly seems to cheer him up).

The peculiarity about these central passages in the film is that they are quite cheerful and sometimes even very funny, even though Macon himself is mired in a deep depression. Davis, as Muriel, brings an unforced wackiness to her role in scenes like the one where she belts out a song while she's doing the dishes. But she is not as simple as she sometimes seems, and when Macon gets carried away with a little sentimental generalizing about the future, she warns him, "Don't make promises to my son that you are not prepared to keep." There is also great good humor in the characters in Macon's family: brothers Porter ( David Ogden Stiers ) and Charles ( Ed Begley Jr.) and sister Rose ( Amy Wright ), a matriarch who feeds the family, presides over their incomprehensible card games and supervises such traditional activities as alphabetizing the groceries on the kitchen shelves. One evening Macon takes his publisher, Julien ( Bill Pullman ), home to dinner and Julien is struck with a thunderbolt of love for Rose. He eventually marries her, but a few weeks later Julien tells Macon that Rose has moved back home with the boys; she was concerned that they had abandoned regular meals and were eating only gorp.

This emergency triggers the movie's emotional turning point, which is subtle but unmistakable. Nobody knows Rose as well as Macon does, and so he gives Julien some very particular advice: "Call her up and tell her your business is going to pieces. Ask if she could just come in and get things organized. Get things under control. Put it that way.

Use those words. Get things under control, tell her." In context, this speech is hilarious. It is also the first time in the film that Macon has been able to extend himself to help anybody, and it starts him on the road to emotional growth. Clinging to the sterility and loneliness that has been his protection, he doesn't realize at first that he has turned the corner. He still doubts that he needs Muriel, and when she buys herself a ticket and follows him to Paris, he refuses to have anything to do with her. When his wife also turns up in Paris, there is a moment when he thinks they may be able to patch things together again, and then finally Macon arrives at the sort of moment he has been avoiding all of his life: He has to make a choice. But by then the choice is obvious; he has already made it, by peeking so briefly out of his shell.

The screenplay for "The Accidental Tourist," by Kasdan and Frank Galati , is able to reproduce a lot of the tone and dialogue of the Anne Tyler novel without ever simply being a movie version of a book. The textures are too specific and the humor is too quirky and well-timed to be borrowed. The filmmakers have reinvented the same story in their own terms. The movie is a reunion for Kasdan, Hurt and Turner, who all three launched their careers with " Body Heat " (1981). Kasdan used Hurt again in " The Big Chill " (1983) and understands how to employ Hurt's gift for somehow being likable at the same time he seems to be withdrawn.

What Hurt achieves here seems almost impossible: He is depressed, low-key and intensely private through most of the movie, and yet somehow he wins our sympathy. What Kasdan achieves is just as tricky; I've never seen a movie so sad in which there was so much genuine laughter. "The Accidental Tourist" is one of the best films of the year.

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The Accidental Tourist (1989)

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William Hurt as MacOn

Kathleen Turner as Sarah

Geena Davis as Muriel

Amy Wright as Rose

David Ogden Stiers as Porter

Ed Begley Jr. as Charles

Bill Pullman as Julian

Robert Gorman as Alexander

Bradley Mott as Mr. Loomis

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Reviewed by Larry McMurty

Sept. 8, 1985

IN Anne Tyler's fiction, family is destiny, and (nowadays, at least) destiny clamps down on one in Baltimore. For an archeologist of manners with Miss Tyler's skills, the city is a veritable Troy, and she has been patiently excavating since the early 1970's, when she skipped off the lawn of Southern fiction and first sank her spade in the soil which has nourished such varied talents as Poe, Mencken, Billie Holiday and John Waters, the director of the films ''Pink Flamingos'' and ''Polyester.''

It is without question some of the fustiest soil in America; in the more settled classes, social styles developed in the 19th century withstand, with sporelike tenacity, all that the present century can throw at them. Indeed, in Baltimore all classes appear to be settled, if not cemented, in grooves of neighborhood and habit so deep as to render them impervious - as a bright child puts it in ''The Accidental Tourist'' - to everything except nuclear flash.

From this rich dust of custom, Miss Tyler is steadily raising a body of fiction of major dimensions. One of the persistent concerns of this work is the ambiguity of family happiness and unhappiness. Since coming to Baltimore, Miss Tyler has probed this ambiguity in seven novels of increasing depth and power, working numerous changes on a consistent set of themes.

In ''The Accidental Tourist'' these themes, some of which she has been sifting for more than 20 years, cohere with high definition in the muted (or, as his wife says, ''muffled'') personality of Macon Leary, a Baltimore man in his early 40's who writes travel guides for businessmen who, like himself, hate to travel.

The logo on the cover of these travel guides (''The Acciental Tourist in England,'' ''The Accidental Tourist in New York,'' etc.) is a winged armchair; their assumption is that all travel is involntary, and they attempt to spare these involuntary travelers the shock of the unfamiliar, insofar as that's possible. Macon will tell you where to find Kentucky Fried Chicken in Stockholm, or whether there's a restaurant that serves Chef Boy-Ar-Dee ravioli in Rome. Macon himself is so devoted to his part of Baltimore that even the unfamiliar neighborhoods he visits affect him as negatively as foreign countries.

Like most of Miss Tyler's males, Macon Leary presents a broad target to all of the women (and even a few of the men) with whom he is involved. His mother; his sister, Rose; his wife, Sarah, and, in due course, his girlfriend, Muriel Pritchett - a dog trainer of singular appearance and ability - regularly pepper him on the subject of his shortcomings, the greatest of which is a lack of passion, playfulness, spontaneity or the desire to do one single thing that they like too do. This lack is the more maddening because Macon is reasonably competent; if prompted he will do more or less anything that's required of him. What exasperates the women is the necessity for constant prompting.

WHEN attacked, Macon rarely defends himself with much vigor, which only heightens the exasperation. He likes a quiet life, based on method and system. His systems are intricate routines of his own devising, aimed at reducing the likelihood that anything unfamiliar will occur. The unfamiliar is never welcome in Macon's life, and he believes that if left to himself he can block it out or at least neutralize it.

Not long after we meet him, Macon is left to himself. Sarah, his wife of 20 years, leaves him. Macon and Sarah have had a tragedy: their 12-year-old son, Ethan, was murdered in a fast-food joint, his death an accidental byproduct of a holdup.

Though Macon is as grieved by this loss as Sarah, he is, as she points out, ''not a comfort.'' When she remarks that since Ethan's death she sometimes wonders if there's any point to life, Macon replies, honestly but unhelpfully, that it never seemed to him there was all that much point to begin with. As if this were not enough, he can never stop himself from correcting improper word choice, even if the incorrect usage occurs in a conversation about the death of a child. These corrections are not made unkindly, but they are invariably made; one does not blame Sarah for taking off.

With the ballast of his marriage removed, Macon immediately tips into serious eccentricity. His little systems multiply, and his remaining companions, a Welsh corgi named Edward and a cat named Helen, fail to adapt to them. Eventually the systems overwhelm Macon himself, causing him to break a leg. Not long after, he finds himself where almost all of Miss Tyler's characters end up sooner or later - back in the grandparental seat. There he is tended to by his sister. His brothers, Porter and Charles, both divorced, are also there, repeating, like Macon, a motion that seems all but inevitable in Anne Tyler's fiction -a return to the sibling unit.

This motion, or tendency, cannot be blamed on Baltimore. In the very first chapter of Miss Tyler's first novel, ''If Morning Ever Comes'' (1964), a young man named Ben Joe Hawkes leaves Columbia University and hurries home to North Carolina mainly because he can't stand not to know what his sisters are up to. From then on, in book after book, siblings are drawn inexorably back home, as if their parents or (more often) grandparents had planted tiny magnets in them which can be activated once they have seen what the extrafmilial world is like. The lovers and mates in her books, by exerting their utmost strength, can sometimes delay these regroupings for as long as 20 years, but sooner or later a need to be with people who are really familiar - their brothers and sisters - overwhelms them.

Macon's employer, a man named Julian, who manages to marry but not to hold Macon's sister, puts it succinctly once Rose has drifted back to her brothers: ''She'd worn herself a groove or something in that house of hers, and she couldn't help swerving back into it.'' Almost no one in Miss Tyler's books avoids that swerve; the best they can hope for is to make a second escape, as does the resourceful Caleb Peck in ''Searching For Caleb'' (1976). Brought back after an escape lasting 60 years, Caleb sneaks away again in his 90's.

Macon, less adventurous than Celab Peck, is saved from this immolation-by-siblings through the unlikely agency of Edward, the Welsh corgi. Unnerved byy the dissolution of his own secure routine, Edward begins to crack up. He starts attacking people, including Julian and Macon's brothers too, one of whom, in a brilliant scene, Edward trees in the family pantry at the very moment that Macon is experiencing an anxiety attack in a restaurant on top of a building in New York.

Re-enter Muriel Pritchett, the dog trainer Macon had met earlier when forced to work out emergency boarding arrangements for Edward. Muriel is everything the Learys are not: talkative, confrontational, an eccentric dresser, casual about word choice. She lives with her sickly child, Alexander, in a Baltimore neighborhood that is not much less foreign to Macon than, say, Quebec. Muriel is also very different from Sarah.

Nonetheless, to the horror of his family, Macon moves in with Muriel. His indifference to his former life is os great that he doesn't even get upset when the pipes in his own house burst, ruining his living room. Muriel, despite her apparent unsuitability, ''could raise her chin sometimes and pierce his mind like a blade. Certain images of her at certain random, insignificant oments would flash before him: Muriel at her kitchen table, ankles twined around her chair rungs, filling out a contest form for an all-expense-paid tour of Hollywood. Muriel telling her mirror, 'I look like the wrath of God' - a kind of ritual of leavetaking. Muriel doing the dishes in her big pink rubber gloves with the crimson fingernails, raising a soapy plate and trailing it airily over to the rinse water.''

Macon, a fairly keen self-analyst, recognizes that while he does not exactly love Muriel, he ''loved the surprise of her, and also the surprise of himself when he was with her. In the foreign country that was Singleton Street he was an entirely different person.''

Surprise, however, is not quite enough; not to ne so wedded to the familiar as Macon. Sarah, the not-yet-divorced wife, though a singularly articulate critic of Learys in general and Macon in particular, finds that all her criticisms do not entirely invalidate Macon as a mate. She wants him back, Muriel wants to keep him, and a fierce tussle ensues, one in which Macon takes a largely spectatorial interest. He cannot entirely resist the suitable Sarah, nor forget the unsuitable but vivid Muriel.

The final scenes of this drama take place in Paris, where the two women manage to corner him. Even as Macon is aking his decision, he is reassured by a sense that in a way it is only temporary, life being, in his scheme of things, a stage from which none of the major players ever completely disappear.

''The Accidental Tourist'' is one of Anne Tyler's best books, as good as 'Morgan's Passing,'' ''Searching for Caleb,'' ''Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.'' The various domestic worlds we enter - Macon/Sarah; Macon/ the Leary siblings; Macon/Muriel - are delineated with easy skill; now they are poignant, now funny. Miss Tyler shows, with a fine clarity, the mingling of misery and contentment int eh daily lives of her families, remind us how alike - and yet distinct - happy and unhappy families can be. Muriel Pritchett is as appealing a woman as Miss Tyler has created; and upon the quiet Macon she lavishes the kind of intelligent consideration that he only intermittently gets from his own womenfolk.

TWO aspects of the novel do not entirely satisfy. One is the unaccountable neglect of Edward, the corgi, in the last third of the book. Edward is one of the more fully characterized dogs in recent literature; his breakdown is at least as interesting and if anything more delicately handled than Macon's. Yet Edward is allowed to slide out of the picture. Millions of readers who have managed to saddle themselves with neurotic quadrupeds will want to know about Edward's situation.

The other questionable element is the dead son, Ethan. Despite an effort now and then to bring him into the book in a vignette or a nightmare, Ethan remains mostly a premise, and one not advanced very confidently by the author. She is brilliant at showing how the living press upon one another, but less convincing when she attempts to add the weight of the dead. The reader is invited to feel that it is this tragedy that separates Macon and Sarah. But a little more familiarity with Macon and Sarah, as well as with the marriages in Miss Tyler's other books, leaves one wondering. Macon's methodical approach to life might have driven Sarah off anyway. He would have corrected her word choice once too often, one feels. Miss Tyler is more successful at showing through textures how domestic life is sustained than she is at showing how these textures are ruptured by a death.

At the level metaphor, however, whe has never been stronger. The concept of an accidental tourist captures in a phrase something she has been saying all along, if not about life, at least about men: they are frequently accidental tourists in their own lives. Macon Leary sums up a long line o fher males, Jake Simmes in ''Earthly Possessions'' is an accidental kidnapper. The lovable Morgan Gower of ''Morgan's Passing,'' an accidental obstetrician in the first scenes, is an accidental husband or lover in the rest of the book. Her men slump arond like tired tourists - friendly, likable, but not all that engaged. Their characters, like their professions, seem accidental even though they come equipped with genealogies of Balzacian thoroughness. All of them have to be propelled through life by (at the very least) a brace of sharp, purposeful women - it usually takes not only a wife and a girlfriend but an indignant mother and one or more devoted sisters to keep these sluggish fellows moving. They poke around haphazardly, ever mild and perennially puzzled, in the foreign country called Life. If they see anything worth seeing, it is usually because a determined woman on the order of Muriel Pritchett thrusts it under their noses and demands that they pay some attention. The fates of these families hinge on long struggles between semiattentive males and semiobsessed females. In her patient investigation of such struggles, Miss Tyler has produced a very satisfying body of fiction.

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The Accidental Tourist

An emotionally distant writer of travel guides must carry on with his life after his son is killed and his marriage crumbles. An emotionally distant writer of travel guides must carry on with his life after his son is killed and his marriage crumbles. An emotionally distant writer of travel guides must carry on with his life after his son is killed and his marriage crumbles.

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Trivia While filming The Fly (1986) , Geena Davis was reading the novel on which this film was based. In fact, she would read it to Jeff Goldblum while he went through the hours-long process of having prosthetic make-up applied to his body. Goldblum also appeared in Lawrence Kasdan 's earlier films, The Big Chill (1983) and Silverado (1985) .
Goofs After returning from England, Macon reaches into his pocket for his keys twice.

Macon : I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.

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Anne Tyler’s The Accidental Tourist is a literary fiction novel that follows the character-driven story of Macon Leary, who must navigate life following the death of his son and the dissolution of his marriage. The Accidental Tourist was originally published in 1985 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The Accidental Tourist is Anne Tyler’s 10th novel and one of her most recognized works. This study guide follows the paperback Berkley edition released in 1986.

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Macon Leary is a writer based out of Baltimore who creates travel guides for people who must travel on business but do not want to be bothered with discomfort or unexpected experiences. Macon is an expert at finding the most comfortable and convenient solutions to average problems. While driving back from a beach vacation, Macon’s wife, Sarah , informs him that she wants a divorce. It’s been a year since their son, Ethan, was unexpectedly killed, and the two have grieved in very different ways. After Sarah moves out, Macon restructures their house, creating a multitude of systems and contraptions to maximize comfort and convenience. When it comes time for Macon to go on his next trip for work, he goes to board the family dog, Edward . He learns Edward is blacklisted from the vet for biting a worker last time he was boarded. Desperate, Macon finds another vet, where he meets Muriel Pritchett. Muriel is talkative and great with dogs. She agrees to let Macon board Edward and proposes that she give Edward obedience lessons. Macon declines and goes on his trip. When he returns, he commits to more systems to run the house. As these systems break down, Macon has an accident, resulting in a broken leg.

Macon moves in with his siblings, Rose , Charles, and Porter, while his leg heals. The Leary siblings are as peculiar as Macon with their habits, rituals, and organizational tendencies. They don’t answer the phone, eat baked potatoes often, and play the same made-up card game they’ve played since they were children. Macon’s siblings complain about Edward’s behavior, but Macon struggles to do anything about it because Edward belonged to Ethan. Finally, after being bit on the hand, Macon reaches out to Muriel, who has persistently tried to get Macon to hire her ever since they met. Muriel is great with Edward and helps Macon teach Edward things like sitting, staying, and walking on a leash. Edward struggles to learn to lie down, so Macon calls the vet. The clerk informs Macon that Muriel is out that day because her son is sick. The next time Macon sees Muriel, he asks how her son is, and she loses her temper because he wasn’t supposed to know about her son yet. Macon fires Muriel in the same scene because she harshly punishes Edward. As Macon’s leg heals, he struggles to overcome his grief from Ethan’s death and his separation from Sarah. When Sarah invites Macon to dinner, he proposes they have another baby to resolve their marital issues, but Sarah instead tells Macon she wants a divorce and cites his seemingly callous reaction after Ethan’s death and lack of comfort to her as her reason.

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After Macon gets his cast off, he flies to New York for work. He visits a skyscraper restaurant, where he has a panic attack after realizing he’s distanced himself from everyone he’s ever cared about. He calls home to ask for help despite his siblings being states away and learns that Edward is misbehaving and has cornered Charles in the pantry. Macon has no one else to call to help Charles and take Edward, so he calls Muriel and asks for her help. Not only does Muriel agree to rescue Charles, but she also comforts Macon and talks him down from his panic. When Macon returns from New York, he allows Muriel to begin training Edward again, and the two begin to spend a lot more time together. Muriel tells Macon all about her life and her son, Alexander. She invites Macon to come to dinner at her house, but Macon is afraid to do so, thinking it will feel like he’s finding substitutes for Sarah and Ethan.

When Macon goes to deliver a letter to Muriel to explain why he won’t have dinner with her, she surprises him with her tenderness, and Macon opens up about his grief regarding Ethan and the way he’s distanced himself from everyone. Muriel invites Macon to sleep in her bed, and he allows her to lead him to her room and tuck him in. Macon begins to spend much more time with Muriel and Alexander, eating dinner with them, helping Alexander with his homework, and joining them at Muriel’s parents’ house for Christmas. Macon’s relationship with Muriel heals him and helps him become less distant from the people around him. He moves in with her and gets to know the people of her street better than he ever knew his own neighbors. He forms a special bond with Alexander, teaching him to fix household items and taking him shopping for clothes.

Eventually, Muriel’s tendencies begin to wear Macon down. He is bothered by her misuse of words, her persistence, her insecurities, and her chaos. Muriel tries to convince Macon to take her to France, but Macon tells her no. Muriel presents Macon a calendar for the current year to show him she’s picked out a wedding day for them. Macon tells her he’s not interested in marrying again because he thinks only perfect couples get married, which leads to an argument and more tension between the couple as time passes.

After encountering Sarah at a wedding, Macon finds Sarah reaching out to him more and more during a trip to Canada. Sarah calls him in every city, at first asking if she can move back into their house because her lease is ending, then just wanting to talk about the weather. She hints that she wants to get back together with Macon and tells him she wishes she were with him in Canada. When Macon lands back in Baltimore, he drives home to Sarah instead of driving to Muriel’s house. They rekindle their relationship, much to Muriel’s heartbreak. Macon and Sarah begin to put their lives back together, buying new furniture and reassembling the house after it was damaged in a snowstorm during Macon’s absence. When Sarah is not around, Macon finds himself longing to talk to someone. He calls Muriel to ask about Alexander’s allergy shots, and Muriel scolds him for having the audacity to contact her about Alexander after abandoning them.

When Macon leaves for France, Muriel shows up on his same flight, having booked the same hotel. Muriel insists that Macon needs her, and Macon feels Muriel will be extremely unprepared to travel in Paris. Macon does his best to avoid Muriel, and she gets along fine without him. He eventually agrees to have dinner with her at a Burger King in Paris, where Muriel fills Macon in about the people on her street. She asks him to come to bed with her, but Macon declines. After several days in Paris, Macon starts day trips to other cities. When he goes to invite Muriel to join him, he throws his back out and becomes incapacitated. He calls his publisher to inform him of the delay, and word gets back to Sarah, who shows up in Paris to take care of Macon. She informs Macon that she saw Muriel, and he tells her that she followed him to France on her own accord. Sarah becomes excited about having a second honeymoon with Macon while they’re in France. One night, she asks Macon why he didn’t do anything to stop Muriel from getting on the plane with him. Macon doesn’t have an answer and realizes he’s never made any major life decisions on his own. Everything that has happened to him has resulted from passively accepting things. He stays up all night thinking and eventually decides to return to Muriel, realizing she is better for him.

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The Accidental Tourist is a story which reflects the humorous travel experiences of the author. He encounters unexpected hassles while travelling that call for trouble and embarrasses him immensely. Read the prose summary of CBSE Class 9 English Prose Notes – The Accidental Tourist in CBSE English Notes Class 9 format here to explore in detail. We hope this summary will help students to understand this chapter easily and prepare for their English exam with confidence.

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CBSE Class 9 English The Accidental Tourist Summary

The Accidental Tourist is an entertaining story written by Bill Bryson, where he reflects on his travel experiences humorously. He casually describes the various incidents that took place while he was travelling to different places. He often acts clumsily and finds it difficult to manage things systematically. He wonders how other people do their regular work easily without any difficulty. A couple of times, he fails to locate the washroom in the movie theatre and ends up standing in a narrow passage of the door that locks by itself. He has a hard time living a normal life like other people and wonders how others do it so effortlessly.

Once, the author was travelling to England with his family during Easter. After reaching Logan Airport in Boston, while they were checking in, he abruptly remembered that he had joined the British Airways’ frequent flyer programme. He recollected that he had put the card in the carry-on bag that was dangling around his neck. When he tried opening the bag, the zip was clogged, and he exerted pressure to open it. In the process, the zip snapped, and everything that was kept inside the bag started spilling all over the place. Meanwhile, the author also noticed that his finger was injured and trapped in the zip. He was terrified at the sight that his finger was bleeding extensively.

Further, the author mentions the unexpected troubles that he encounters while travelling. In one such instance, while travelling in an aeroplane, he leaned over to tie his shoelace. Unfortunately, he was stuck when the person sitting ahead of him fully reclined his seat. With great difficulty, he freed himself from that cramped position. In another instance, he spilt some soft drinks on his co-passenger. Although the flight attendant cleaned up the mess, the author spilt another drink on the same passenger again. The lady was completely drenched and annoyed at the author for the inconvenience he caused her.

However, his worst experience on a flight was when he was writing in a notebook, and he sucked on the tip of the pen. At that time, he was also talking to a lady. Later when he went to the washroom, he saw that the pen had leaked unknowingly and ended up colouring his teeth, tongue and mouth in blue colour ink. He ended up feeling awkward for being so clumsy. Although the author is a gentleman, he always ends up in some cumbersome situation. His wife was well aware of his clumsiness. So, whenever food was delivered on the flight, she would instruct her children to remove the lid off the food for their father so that they could avoid any mishap from happening.

Nonetheless, the author clarifies that such unforeseen situations occur, particularly when he is travelling with his family. Whenever he travels alone, things work perfectly as he quietly sits on his seat and avoids tying his shoelaces if required. He avoids making mistakes while he is travelling on his own. He admits that he has been careless in updating his frequent flyer card due to time constraints. On multiple occasions, he either forgot to request the air miles from the airline authorities, or sometimes the airline didn’t record it on time. Furthermore, he mentions that there were instances when the airline informed him that he was not entitled to use air miles. Once due to a mismatch in his name on the ticket, he could not use his air miles and was left ineligible to travel to Bali on a first-class ticket.

Conclusion of The Accidental Tourist

The chapter – The Accidental Tourist teaches students that it is important to be organised and systematic in our lives, especially while travelling. We should be well-prepared; otherwise, we are likely to encounter unexpected mishaps like the author. Here, we brought you the CBSE Class 9 English Moments Prose Summary of The Accidental Tourist that will help students to have a solid insight into the chapter.

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Why is it important for a student to be organised in life.

For students, being organised is particularly important since it helps them learn how to prioritise activities, set and achieve goals and reduce stress.

How should one be conscious and aware during travel?

1. Don’t drink bottled water from unknown shops/people 2. Avoid the tourist trap locations 3. Travel in off-season 4. Choose proper accommodation

What is the meaning of ‘unforeseen situation’?

Any situation that is not anticipated or expected is called an ‘unforeseen situation’.

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Thursday, March 30, 2017

The accidental tourist: a wistful tale of emotional healing, 4 comments:.

"Wistful." The perfect description. I am often baffled by the Academy's choices in the music categories. Too often. "they store their groceries in alphabetical order" Sounds like something on the autism spectrum, if some of my son's quirks are anything to go by. An interesting quirk. "one of his tips is to always carry a book on planes, so you can read and not have to interact with other passengers" I always have a book with me. Doesn't everyone. Or is that one of my quirks. H'm.

I saw this film years ago and had forgotten all about it until your post. Clearly, I need to see this again. Caftan Woman (above) nailed it when she said "wistful" is the perfect description. I completely agree.

I missed The Accidental Tourist when it was in release and somehow never caught up to it. I suspect it's Geena Davis, an actress I never warmed to for some reason. Body Heat, on the other hand, I own and have watched time and again. A masterful neo-noir - with an excellent score by John Barry, by the way. As for the Academy - its voting habits seem to me a mystery in so many key categories...

Such interesting characters and relationships. I normally don't happen to read books about relationships per se, but this one was captivating and far more interesting in its every-day events and twists as the main character works his way through grief over the loss of his only child. As different a journey for the reader as it is for the main characters. Luzia Highly recommended KRW Personal Injury Lawyers

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The Accidental Tourist Explanation, Line by Line, Meaning of Difficult Words, Class 9 CBSE English Chapter 9 NCERT Moments

THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST

(Explanation, Meaning of difficult words)

Author – Bill Bryson

I am not good at many things. Among those, living in the reality is probably the most prominent. Author wants to say that many times he would imagine that certain things did not exist or happen for him.

I am regularly surprised by the things many people do. They are able to do these things without any difficulty. Doing such things is certainly not within my ability.

Many times in cinema hall I have tried to search a washroom. Instead of reaching washroom, I would reach at the end of a corridor or a passage. This passage would have a self-locking door. So I would get locked there.

Nowadays my special behaviour is to go the hotel desk two or three times a day. I would ask my room number there. I easily get confused.

Once a large group of us was travelling as a family. It was during Easter. Our group was travelling by air to England. It was a one week tour.

Our group had reached Logan Airport of Boston. It is a town in USA. Suddenly I recalled that I had joined the Frequent Flyer Programme of British Airways. I had joined it recently.

I was carrying a carry-on bag with me. I had put it around my neck. I recalled that I had the card of Frequent Flyer Programme in that bag. Immediately after that all the problems started.

The zip of the bag had jammed. So I pulled the zip and gave it many jerks. While doing so I was making some strange sounds. My facial expressions had changed. My anger was increasing. I continued to try but the zip of the bag did not move. So I started applying more force to pull it. Louder sounds were emerging from my throat.

Then suddenly the zip opened. The side of the bag opened with a jerk. Everything that was within the bag jumped out. These were thrown out of the bag without any control. These were spread in a large area. Author has equated it to area of a tennis court to imply that it was really a large area.

I was so shocked that I could not speak anything. The carefully arranged documents flew away one after the other. They were making fluttering sound while flying away from the bag. The coins while rolling down and bouncing were making sounds that I had never heard. The lid of my tobacco tin came out. The tin started rolling away without any control. The tobacco poured out of the tin and spread in the hall.

I shouted ‘My tobacco’. I got afraid that I would have to spend some amount on buying tobacco in England. Price of tobacco had been increased in the last budget. Then I shouted after looking at my finger. I noticed that there was a deep cut in my finger. The zip had made a deep cut in my finger. Blood was coming out in large quantity.

In general, I felt very bad whenever I saw blood. But that was never my own blood. This time it was my own blood. My shouting was therefore justified. This time I was shouting loudly like a mad person. I was confused. I was not able to help myself. I did not know what to do.

Now my wife looked at me. She was surprised. She was irritated or annoyed. She told that she was not aware that I did such acts for making a living. She thought I used to play such games to earn money for our house hold expenses.

I am sorry to say that it was true – I always got into trouble during travel. Once I was travelling in an aeroplane. While sitting in my seat I bent to tie my shoelace. The person sitting in the seat ahead of me bent his seat backwards. Both activities happened at the same time. So I was stuck between my seat and the seat ahead of me. I was about to fall down.

I gripped the leg of the person sitting next to me. That was the only method available to me to free myself from that situation.

Author narrates one more incident. That time he spilled his cold drink into the lap of a lady. That lady was sitting in the seat near to him. The flight attendant came. She cleaned clothes of the lady. She gave me another cold drink. I spilled the second drink also on the lady sitting next to me.

Till today I am not able to understand how it had happened. I remember that I had extended my hand to take the cold drink from the flight attended. My hand looked like a poor support for the cold drink. It was similar to the supports used in the horror film The Undead Limb . Suddenly the drink came out from top of the container with full force. All of it fell into the lap of the lady sitting next to me.

The lady looked at me. Her expressions were as if she was shocked. She was certainly shocked to repeatedly get wet by the cold drinking spilling on her. She expressed her shock by a sentence. The sentence started with ‘Oh’ and ended with ‘sake’. I cannot repeat the words spoken between these two words. I had never heard those words. A nun would never speak such words. Author wants to say that such words are not spoken by priests. Probably these were not decent words.

This was not my worst experience in a plane. The worst experience had occurred in another flight. In that flight I was writing some important thoughts in a note book. This is a satire because actually author was writing about some minor things. He had put end of the pen in his mouth. Somehow a conversation started between the author and the beautiful young lady sitting next to him.

I talked to her with for about 20 minutes. During this period I entertained her by my courteous and humorous talks. Then I went to washroom. In the mirror I saw that ink from pen had leaked. My chin, tongue, teeth and gums were shining because of navy blue ink. It was not possible to completely remove those marks by rubbing. Those parts remained blue for many days.

I am sure by now you must have understood that I make lot of efforts to look charming. Many times I would suddenly get up from my dining table. This action would be so quick as if there were an earthquake. I will run towards my car and get into it. In the hurry a good part of my coat will get caught in the door of the car. It would be hanging out side. Many times I would wear a pants of light colour. I would not pay any attention while sitting at many places during the day. At the end of the day many chewing gums would be stuck on my pants. It will also have many marks of ice cream, cough syrup etc. I know you will not believe it. Author wants to say that he is a careless person.

While travelling in plane when food is served, my wife gives several advice to kids. She would request kids to remove the lid of food packets for me. When I am trying to cut meat in small pieces, she advises kids to put their hood on head. But I hear such words only when I am travelling with family.

But when I travel alone, I do not drink, eat or bend to tie shoelaces. I never put a pen in my mouth.

I sit very quietly. Sometimes I put my hands below my thighs. This is to prevent my hands moving in different directions. Because of such sudden movement of my hands some liquid may fall on somebody. Author is making a reference to cold drink incident. I do not like to keep my hands below my thighs. But it reduces my expenses on washing of clothes.

I could not accumulate my frequent flyer miles. I could never find my frequent flyer card when it is required. I am certainly disappointed because of it. I am aware that everyone is travelling to Bali in first class. They use their air miles.

I could not collect enough air miles. I am flying at least 100,000 miles in one year. Still I have accumulated only 212 miles. This is after travelling in 23 air-lines.

This has happened (I collected very less air-miles) because sometimes I forget to ask for air miles when I check-in. Sometimes when I remember to ask for air miles but the airline forgets to record them. Sometimes the check-in clerk informs me that I cannot get air miles.

In January I was travelling to Australia. I could have got a large number of air-miles for this flight. When I gave her my card, she shook her head. She told me that I was not eligible for air-miles. I asked her the reason.

The check-in clerk informed that the ticket was for B. Bryson. And the name in the card is W. Bryson. So the air-miles cannot be allowed. I tried to explain to her the close and acceptable relationship between Bill and William. Author wanted to say that both are same persons. By mistake, the name was written incorrectly in the card. But she did not accept it.

So I did not get any air-miles for the trip to Australia. Therefore I will not be flying to Bali in first class for some more time. Perhaps I should never go there. Because I will not be able to remain hungry during such a long flight.

BILL BRYSON

by Anne Tyler

The accidental tourist symbols, allegory and motifs, symbol: edward.

Edward is a vital part of the narrative, serving as a catalyst for Macon to meet Muriel through the regular dog training sessions. The disruptive behavior of Edward symbolizes the repressed animal nature of Macon, who constantly tries to push down his emotions in order to feel in control.

The aggression of Edward peaks when Macon is at his lowest point. When Macon is at the top of a very tall building for a work assignment, he goes into a panic and calls his brother for help. Charles informs Macon that Edward has been acting out and has cornered him in the pantry. At this moment, Macon realizes that both his fears and Edward's unruliness are no longer acceptable. By allowing Muriel to help to train him, Macon is also accepting the need to get his life back into order.

Edward was also Ethan's dog, so Macon's commitment to training the dog—rather than giving him away, as his siblings suggest—is a way for Macon to stay connected to his deceased son, honoring his memory.

Motif: Macon's book

Macon frequently refers to a 1,000-page book, Miss Macintosh, which he brings along with him on all of his work trips. He regards the book as boring and much too long, and he does not actually read the story. He more uses the book as a way to avoid any conversation with those seated next to him on trains or planes. In this sense, the motif is an extension of Macon and his habit of hiding from the world and any potential intimacy with others.

Motif: Telephone

The telephone is frequently ringing throughout The Accidental Tourist. In one instance, Macon dreams that he receives a phone call from Ethan and wakes up to realize it is actually Julian checking up on him. After Macon breaks his leg and moves in with his family, the Leary siblings leave the phone off the hook to avoid any unwanted social contact. Macon and Sarah resume their relationship after they have a string of phone conversations while he is on a business trip. In this way, the phone is a representation of both the characters' desire to connect with one another and their fear of real, honest communication.

Symbol: Airplanes

Macon spends more hours on airplanes than the average person. This is because it is his profession to travel to foreign cities and write travel guides for people who hate traveling. Macon, too, is one of those who dislike leaving their familiar terrain. There are many scenes in the novel where Macon is seen on an airplane, often seated next to an odd character who pokes and prods Macon out of his bubble. Plane rides thus symbolize the opportunities life gives Macon to get out of his comfort zone and get a new perspective, where he literally flies above his problems and into the unknown. In one scene where Macon flies with Muriel, he looks down at the landscape below him and the many houses, having the sensation of the myriad lives that exist apart from his own. This wider viewpoint proves to be therapeutic to Macon, who often struggles with his daily routine.

Symbol: Muriel's childhood photo

After Christmas dinner when Macon has met Muriel's parents for the first time, she gifts him an old photograph of herself as a young girl. Macon is appreciative not so much of her cuteness, but rather of what he perceives as her determined nature shining through her expression. Muriel has given Macon this photo as a gesture of trust and openness in what is still the early stages of their relationship. Because it pictures her as a child, the photograph also symbolizes the sweetness and innocence that has been sorely lacking in Macon's life since the death of his son and the separation from Sarah. This is why Macon becomes so touched by the gift, and this moment marks when he starts to fall in love with Muriel even more.

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Standing water in the road is compared to a wide lake.

A wide lake, it seemed, in the center of the highway crashed against the underside of the car and slammed it to the right.

How does Macon meet Muriel?

Macon meets Muriel when he hires her to train his dog.

How is Macon described in Chapter 1?

From the text:

He was a tall, pale, gray-eyed man, with straight fair hair cut close to his head, and his skin was that thin kind that easily burns.

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The Accidental Tourist Class 9 English, Moments – Summary, Explanation, Word Meanings

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Detailed explanation of “The Accidental Tourist”, including definitions of difficult words. In addition, the explanation is followed by a lesson summary. Also, NCERT Question and Answers are also provided to help students understand this Chapter and do well in their exams.

1 Introduction
3 Extra Questions
4 Word Meanings

Introduction

The Accidental Tourist is an amusing story by Bill Bryson who shares his experiences during air travels. He finds himself involved in difficult and embarrassing situations as a tourist. He has a confused personality and is always in troubles. His tendency to cause unintentional accidents makes the story humorous and entertaining. Bill Bryson is a narrator of the story and keeps on committing blunders whenever he is travelling. Bill Bryson’s Wife , narrator’s wife knows that the narrator commits mistakes while travelling. So, she asks her children to help the narrator whenever they are travelling together.

The narrator believed that he is not at all good at living in the real world. He felt amazed at how other people were able to do things so easily which he was unable to perform. He got easily confused. At many times he was unable to find the lavatory (washroom) in a cinema. He also forgets his hotel room number. He goes two or three times in a day at the hotel desk to enquire about the room number.

On Easter, the narrator went to England with his family for a week. On the Logan Airport in Boston, he suddenly remembered that he had a discount card of British Airways frequent flyer programme. The card was kept in the carry on bag. When the narrator tried to open his bag he found that the zip of the bag was jammed. He pulled the zip harder in anger. The zip of bag broke up and all things like tin of pipe tobacco, magazines, passport, papers, money, etc. were spread over a large area. Suddenly, he realised that his finger got injured in the incident and it was bleeding. His wife looked at him with wonder as he had caused so much mess.

The narrator always had mis happenings while travelling in an aeroplane that resulted into inconvenience to many passengers. Once on a flight, the narrator bent to tie his shoelace and someone on the seat ahead of him pushed his seat back. The back of the seat hitted the narrator’s head. He had to hold the leg of the other passenger to manage his position. On another flight, he dropped soft drink on the lady sitting beside him.

The flight attendant helped her clean up and got him another drink. He also dropped the second glass on that lady. He was confused on how it happened. The worst experience on the flight was once happened when the narrator was writing his thoughts in a notebook. He was sucking the other end of the pen from time to time and also talking to a woman seated beside him. After sometime, when he went to the washroom, he saw that the ink had leaked from his pen and made his mouth, teeth, gums and chin navy blue in colour.

The narrator wanted to be suaved (civilised). He wanted to leave the dining table neat and clean. He wanted that whenever he sits in the car, he should not leave the sleeve of his coat stuck in the door. He does not wanted to stain his light coloured trousers by sitting on various things.

On the flight, when narrator’s family was served meals, his wife directed the children to cover their heads with the hood to save themselves from the mess that their father (narrator) would create while eating. To keep himself away from any mishap, the narrator does not eat, drink or bend to tie his shoelaces when he travels alone. He sits very quietly and keeps his hands under him to prevent them from moving. He did not enjoy sitting like that but it helped him saving the laundary expenditure.

The narrator was a frequent traveller but he never got his discount on air miles. He must fly 100,000 miles a year but he had gathered only about 212 air miles from twenty three airlines. The reasons were that sometimes he forgot to ask for air miles or sometimes the airlines did not record them.

Once the narrator was travelling to Australia from which he was going to get about a Zillion air miles. But, he cannot get any discount on miles because the clerk told him that his name on the ticket was B Bryson while the name on the card was W Bryson. Consequently, he does not got any air miles and also he could not travel to Bali in first class.

Extra Questions

(1) Why was the author dumbstruck at the Logan Airport when he was checking in?

(2) How did the author open his carry on bag at the airport? What happened?

(3) How did the author react when the contents of the luggage flew in the air?

(4) Why was the author pinned on the floor once when he flew in an aeroplane?

(5) How did Bill Bryson end up in a crash position in the air craft?

(6) How did the accidental tourist annoy the lady in the plane?

(7) What was the author’s worst experience on a plane flight? Why?

(8) This has become a real frustration for me. What is this and how does it arise?

(9) Why could he not get his frequent flyer miler?

(10) What made the author’s finger bleed? What was his wife’s reaction?

(11) Why did Bill hair go into panic mode?

(12) Do you think it is normal to behave the way Bill Bryson does at times ? Give reason for your answer?

(13) Describe the incident relating to the opening of the zip of the carry-on bag by the author?

(14) Why did Bill Bryson’s teeth and gums look navy blue?

(15) How did the lady react when the Bill Bryson dropped his soft drink in her lap for the second time?

(16) Give the character sketch of Bill Bryson as the most confused person?

(17) It is mandatory for the flight crew to go out of their way to ensure the comfort of the passengers? Do you agree? Give reasons taking reference from the story ” The Accidental Tourist”?

(18) Do you think the narrator’s attitude and activities were responsible for his suffering during the flights?

(19) Who is the accidental tourist? Why is he called so?

(20) Where did the narrator go on a big trip with his family? What did he search for in his bag at that time?

(21) Describe the lady’s reaction on whom the narrator dropped the soft drink twice?

(22) What precautions were taken by the narrator to avoid mischief when travelling alone?

(23) How do you know that the narrator family is aware of his situation?

(24) Why was the author unable to get the air miles?

(25) What is the author of the story “The Accidental Tourist ” Not good at ?

(26) Why did the author take a tobacco tin on his trip to London? What happened to it?

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The Accidental Tourist By Bill Bryson – Summary, Setting, Title and Questions and Answers

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The Accidental Tourist By Bill Bryson

INTRODUCTION

This is a story written by Bill Bryson about his adventures on planes. During these flights, he has had a number of negative incidents. He recounts all of these events, and we learn how he fails to enjoy his air flights and, despite being a frequent traveller, is unable to obtain an air card due to his negligence. Traveling has never been simple for him, he claims.

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The Accidental Tourist is a realistic fiction novel created in the United States. The book is unlike other works of American literature that aim to depict the moral landscape of postwar America. Anne Tyler, on the other hand, captures the moments that influence people’s lives. Tyler tells the story of a person’s struggle to cope with ordinary emotions. Her fiction isn’t historical, and she doesn’t try to blend modern society into it. Her writing style and subject matter are both straightforward but intelligent. Her story appeals to men since it includes a male protagonist who is fighting with his emotions. The Accidental Tourist is a subtle comedy and a love tale, but the focus is on personal emotional growth and healing as a result of bereavement. Tyler hopes to remind her readers of the goodness in regular people in her upbeat tale.

The title suggests that the story is about an accidental tourist who finds himself in uncomfortable or embarrassing situations while on tourist. When reading the text, one discovers that the tourist, Bill Bryson, travels regularly yet always ends up in an accident. He does not learn from his errors and continues to make the same errors. He forgets to put his frequent flyer card where it belongs, spills drinks while reaching for one, leaves a large portion of his coat outside while closing the car door, smudges his light-colored trousers several times without realising it, and many other seemingly insignificant things cannot be handled by him without making a mess. The title “The Accidental Tourist” is suitable since it’s entertaining to see Bryson get into accidents all the time at a time when travel is so accessible that it’s made the world seem small.

Value Points

✒️ The most difficult task for the narrator is surviving in the actual world. In a cinema, he was unable to locate the restroom and even forgot his room number.

✒️ He knew his card was in his carry-on bag, slung around his neck, at Logan Airport in Boston.

✒️ He yanked the bag’s zip in frustration when it became stuck. However, it eventually gave way, and the contents of the bag were scattered across a vast region.

✒️ The narrator found air travel to be quite perplexing. Someone pushed him from behind as he stooped over to tie his shoelace, pinning him to the ground.

✒️ Because the ticket was issued in the name of B. Bryson, he was not eligible for frequent flyer miles. W. Bryson’s name, however, appeared on the card.

✒️ The narrator was denied a first-class flight to Bali.

Bill Bryson travelled frequently by plane. His plane travels often leave him feeling anxious. In this lesson, the author discusses some of his travel-related experiences. He claims that he once travelled to England with his family. He was carrying a carry-on bag.

The difficulty began at the airport when the check-in personnel requested that he unzip the suitcase. He attempted to open the bag’s zipper but was unsuccessful. He tugged harder, and the rope broke. The contents of the bag fell out in a fluttering cascade. The newspaper clippings, various documents, pipe tobacco tin, magazines, passport, and coins were scattered over an area roughly the size of a tennis court.

Then he shares another event he has had. He claims that he once bent over to tie his shoelace on an aeroplane. Just as someone in front of him reclined his seat to its furthest extent, he found himself caught helplessly in the crash position. He was only able to extricate himself by tearing at the leg of the man seated next to him.

On a separate occasion, he spilled a soft drink into a lady’s lap. He repeatedly engaged in this mischief. However, this was hardly his worst flight experience. According to him, his worst encounter occurred during an aeroplane ride. He claims to have been writing in a notebook. he struck up a discussion with the lovely young lady seated next to him. He was sucking on the end of his pen. When he went to the restroom after approximately 20 minutes, he noticed that the pen had leaked, and his mouth, chin, tongue, teeth, and gums were suddenly navy blue and would remain thus for several days.

Despite his frequent flying, he never received an air card. Ile claims that he used to fly 100,000 miles a year but was unable to obtain an air card due to his negligence or other factors.

Setting and Structure

Like many of Anne Tyler’s works, The Accidental Tourist is set in Baltimore and focuses on ordinary persons and the events that define them. Anne Tyler takes the reader on a tour through pre-1985 Baltimore, while presenting the human struggle to endure life’s unavoidable realities, including family, death, and love. Twenty chapters make up The Accidental Tourist. The progression of storyline and themes mirrors the phases of mourning, which are denial, suffering, idealisation, and transference.

In the first five chapters of the work, Macon and the incidents that have led to his current mental state are introduced to the reader. His unstable upbringing with a flighty mother and “stodgy” brothers and sister, as well as his marriage to Sarah and the death of their son, Ethan, have all led to his existence as an orderly, emotionally contained man. Edward’s misbehaviour affects Macon’s life of inactivity once he breaks his leg and relocates to his grandfather’s house, despite the fact that he is satisfied with being completely cut off from the outside world. When Muriel begins to train Edward, Macon is compelled to dig under the surface of a different way of life as Muriel shares her own experiences to him. Macon begins to change, and his family begins to view him with suspicion. However, Muriel and Julian, his boss, accept his personal changes, and Macon himself eventually accepts them as well. Despite briefly returning to his spouse and home, he ultimately realises his improved personal power and vows to pursue his new life with Muriel. Macon’s ultimate decision in Paris is not simple, but it is conclusive indication that he has completed the emotional healing process.

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Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow in one or two lines.

I) The zip on the bag was jammed. So I pulled on it and yanked at it, with grunts and frowns and increasing consternation. I kept this up for some minutes but it wouldn’t budge, so I pulled harder and harder.

1.Which bag is being referred to in this extract? Ans: When Bryson and his family arrived at Logan Airport in Boston on their way to Europe, he had a carry-on bag slung around his neck. This is the bag that is being referred to in this context. 2. What had happened to the zip on the bag? Ans: The zip of the bag had become stuck, and despite Bryson’s best attempts, it was not possible to unzip the bag. 3. Why did Bryson want to open the bag? Ans: Bryson wanted to open the bag to take out his frequent flyer card and avail its benefits. 4. What happened when Bryson pull harder and harder at the zip? Ans: When Bryson pulled harder and harder at the zip, the bag gave way abruptly and its entire contents spilt over, creating a mess. Very Short Answer Type Questions I. Who was Bill Bryson? Ans. Bill Bryson was a frequent air traveller. 2. How did Bill Bryson find himself during his air travels? Ans. He found himself always uneasy during his air travels. 3. Where was Bill going when the zip of his carry bag broke? Ans. At that time he was going to England. 4. What happened when the zip of the bag gave way? Ans. Everything within the hag-newspaper cuttings, other loose papers, tin pipe tobacco, magazines, passport. English money-ejected on the road. 5. What happened to Bill’s finger? Ans. Bill gashed his finger on the zip and blood was shedding in a lavish manner. 6. Why did Bill lean over in the plane? Ans. He leaned over in the plane to tie a shoelace. 7. What did Bill do to the lady travelling with him on one of his plane journeys? Ans. He knocked a soft drink over the lap of the lady twice. 8. What happened when Bill’s pen leaked? Ans. His mouth, Chin, tongue. teeth and gums were now a striking scrub-resistant navy blue. 9. Who was the accidental tourist? Ans. Bill Bryson was the accidental tourist. 10. What type of person was Bill Bryson? Ans. He was a confused person. SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS Q.1. What does Bill Bryson tell us about his habit of getting confused? Ans. Bill Bryson states that he is easily puzzled by the activities that others find enjoyable. He claims he cannot remember the details for long. He continually fails to remember them. When he is staying at a hotel, he must visit the front desk twice or thrice to inquire about his room number, as he describes. Q.2. What happened at London Airport when the author was going to England on a long journey with family? Ans. When the author was embarking on a lengthy journey to England, he encountered problems at the London Airport. His business card was in the carry-on luggage. When he attempted to unzip it, he was unsuccessful due to a jammed zipper. When he tugged it vigorously, it snapped and all of the contents of the bag fell to the ground. Q.3. Narrate briefly the incident of spilling a soft drink on to a co-passenger in a plane by the author. Ans. During one of his travels, the author spilled drink on the lap of the lovely lady seated next to him. The flight attendant attended to her cleanliness. The attendant handed him a replacement drink, which he once again spilled on the woman. The woman regarded him with a stupefied gaze. Q.4. What two reasons does Bill Bryson give for the absence of air miles cards with the hint? Ans. He claims to be a regular flyer. He must fly one million miles annually. However, he lacks additional air miles cards. Because he forgets to request air miles while purchasing a ticket. And occasionally, the air-station clerk provides an explanation for the unavailability of air miles cards. Q. 5. What is the ‘most outstanding thing’ that the writer, Bill Bryson, thinks he is not good at? What does this reveal about Bryon’s traits? Ans: The author Bill Bryson believes that living in the actual world is the “most outstanding thing” he is not good at. This demonstrates that he is so preoccupied with his own ideas that he fails to behave normally and causes accidents. LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS Q.1.How would you describe Bill Bryson as an accidental tourist? Give two instances from the test. Ans. Bill Bryson was such a tourist who remained almost all the year round on an aeroplane. Many accidents take place with him. So he is called an accidental tourist. The two incidents from the text are mentioned below.

Bill Bryson was a tourist who spent nearly the entire year on an aeroplane. He is involved in numerous accidents. Therefore, he is termed an accidental tourist. The two events from the text are listed below.

i) When his carry-on bag’s zipper breaks, all of his belongings spill out. The newspaper clippings and other items tumble downward in a fluttering manner. The coins are tossed around randomly. The tobacco tin without a lid ejects its contents in a frantic manner. About the size of a tennis court, these creatures are dispersed across this area.

(ii) During one of his trips, the author spilled soda on the lap of a lovely woman sitting next to him. She was cleaned up by the flight attendant. The attendant handed him a new drink, and he once again threw it at the woman. The woman regarded him with an expression of astonishment. Q. 2. Bring out the humour in the story “The Accidental Tourist”. Ans: “The Accidental Tourist” is a humorous story of the various mishaps brought on by a confused and clumsy individual. The author who narrates the incidents, Bill Bryson, discusses his experiences in a humorous manner. In describing how he disorganised the contents of his carry-on luggage while searching for his frequent flyer miles card, he refers to the contents as “a hundred meticulously organised paperwork.” When he cuts his finger on the zipper and sees his own blood, he justifies his hysteria. The fact that he is pinning himself in a crash posture while tying his shoelaces is yet another humorous occurrence. When he thoughtfully sucked on the end of his pen, he turned his mouth, chin, tongue, teeth, and gums navy blue. He resembled a clown due to his ink-stained mouth. In addition, the ‘essential ideas’ he describes were simply reminders to purchase socks and carefully hold drinks. The tongue-in-cheek tone of the anecdote is enhanced by his wife’s request that his children open food containers for him. His inability to receive frequent flyer points because the name on the card did not match the name on the ticket is yet another humorous incident. His explanation for not travelling to Bali, namely that he cannot go so long without food, is really humorous.

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Introduction

Travelling is a nightmare for the narrator who always messes things up while travelling.

Travelling Mess

The narrator feels surprised by seeing people do things that he cannot. He is forgetful and confused all the time. One day, when the narrator went on a trip to England along with his family. He had come to know that he has joined the frequent flyer club.

While trying to tuck the card in, the bag zipper gave up, and everything ejected out of the bag. The narrator’s finger was stuck in the zipper, and blood was oozing out. The narrator always had a catastrophe while travelling.

Stupidity or Misfortune?

On another occasion, the narrator once spilt a soft drink on a lady sitting beside him. When the attendant came and cleaned her up, the narrator spilt the drink again. He felt humiliated and had to hear some of the most gruesome abuses. But according to the narrator, this was not the worst thing that he had experienced on a plane.

Once, while talking to a beautiful lady, he had this tip of his pen in his mouth, and it happened so that the pen had leaked and blue ink was scattered all over his mouth and face. Every daily life event had left an indelible mark on his personality because he had never completed a task without messing things up.

Different Names

The narrator could never use his frequent flyer card because he would forget his card or forget to claim the benefits to the concerned authorities. One day, when he remembered his card, the attendant refused to give him the benefits as the card and the ticket had different names on them. It was an absolute misfortune for the narrator.

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