Dramatic Story

Fear! Something I face every dreary morning. The risk, it is not a matter of if but a matter of when.

I pull on my well worn boots, who have, as well as me been on this walk a thousand times before, sure enough they have always brought me home... safely.

As I step out the door the cold breeze, no, sorry, the freezing cold deadly hurricane hit me. With it blowing all the air out of my lungs, as if to take it and use it as more strength on its next victim. I pushed my way through the wind as if I was pushing myself through the canteen queue at lunch hour. The wind, was almost screaming at me to go back into the safely and warmth of my own home; as if what lay ahead of me was not enough.

I manage to get around the corner without much more drama, but I knew what would happen next. As I thought about it, I saw him.

He took down the path as if he was on a murderous rampage. He looked at me, with only one thing going through his head. Victim. He stood there, staring, if looks could kill, well, I would have been dead weeks ago. He dribbled as though one touch of those poison molecules and I would decease. I walked past him getting faster, faster, faster! Not faltering, not looking back.

Vicious. Ferocious. Malicious. All words which could describe what came next. The dog was snarling, growling, roaring at me telling me if he was ever let out I'd be the first to go. His hatred of all man kind started to cause it to rain or maybe it was just the beads of sweat running down my forehead.

But I was there. The comfort of the bright eyed bus, ready and waiting to advance to its destination.

Florida Tourist Guide

The Florida Travel Guide has many typical features of travel literature.

A typical feature of travel writing is essential information. An example of this in the travel guide is the directory. The directory contains the addresses  and phone numbers of the countries consultants, tourist information for Canada, Florida and the UK, it also holds the numbers of the American Association of Retired Persons and Mobility International. The purpose of these numbers are to give tourists a way to find things out that aren't in the book. In addition the directory has been given  its own column and it is in a box which makes it easy to read and quicker to find. This is typical of a travel book to give people this type information because it informs people of how to find the information they want to find while they are away and need the phone numbers to plan their trips.

The writing in the travel book is also very typical of the travel guide genre. The introduction for example is short and snappy; only one short paragraph long. The introduction is very different to the rest of the writing as it has many opinions wound into it as well as facts for example; 'the ultimate family destination' and 'a real pleasure' by using opinions it makes the writing more  interesting and to attract the reader before they begin to read the facts  by making the introduction interesting it makes reading the facts more interesting and worth while.  The reason travel literature does this is to interest the reader to make them more interested in the book because many people don't enjoy reading things about travel but they prefer to travel themselves.