I think that the poinst of view in the text is more criticising of backpackers, than the point of view in the others texts. In text number two, they kind of say that the backpackers is saying one thing and then doing another. They try to escape from everything; they don’t want their normal life anymore. They want to travel, go out and see the world, as it should be seen. But they don’t want to be together with the entire tourist population, so they seek places where normal tourist won’t go. But of course they are not the only ones trying to get away from people, so instead of travelling alone, they created their own community of backpackers. Where they as a community travel to places far away from the normal things the tourists see, they just create some new sights.
If you compare text number two to text number one, you’ll see that they have different opinions. They are just trying to get as far away as possible from their old and boring life. I think that he means that he just don’t like his life because it is too predictable. He wants to see the world. But not just some places that everybody visits. He wants to go to places where none have ever been before. A funny thing he mentioned, that really caught me attention, was the way he said he woke up. He said he had been in some kind of sleep, all these years. He had just walked around in his world like it was a classroom. He thinks that his world was a big classroom. A classroom I think is a symbol of laws, and closed rooms. I think that is why many people go backpacking, because in a classroom, it’s the teacher who has got the power, and who decides what to do, and what not to do. In real life, the teacher of the classroom could be the government, the laws or the police, all those people who run your life. In a classroom you have no rights to do what ever you want. Some people might feel they just want to get away from their life with all these things they have to do, all these rolls they have to play.
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