According to Szabó Tünde of the Joszef Attila University, the travel narrative can be in one of three forms. It could be a letter, diary/journal, or a chronicle (Tünde). In the narrative, the traveler is almost always either superior (his ability to change places), an outsider (this would make the traveler freer), ignorant (of his or her conditions they are in), or eccentric/extraordinary (in bodily features, attitude, thinking, etc.) (Tünde). It is also a memory that is written during the journey (Tünde). The traveler/narrator realizes that they are an outsider in the places they visit, and sometimes they see the “exotic” surroundings as inhospitable because they are an outsider (Kich). Travel narratives are also defined by the aspect that it is a “story” about a journey one takes (Travel Writers).

“The Kyogle Line” by David Malouf has different aspects

a travel narrative consists of. This narrative takes place in July of 1944 in Australia. It was during this time that World War II was taking place. The narrator is a little boy of probably about 10 years of age or younger. The narrative itself seems like a chronicle of the things that are happening in the eyes of the narrator. The boy is going “on the first trip of my life… that would take me over a border.” (390) His hometown of Kyogle is right on the border of New South Wales in Australia. According to the narrative, his house was only a few hundred yards away from the border of New South Wales, yet he had never before crossed it. Now his parents are going to take a trip to Sydney, which is in the middle coastal part of New South Wales. The narrator is going into territory that he has never been to. This is the “outsider” characteristic of travel narratives. There are also outsider characteristics in “Local Colour” where the boys are visiting the country of Greece, and in “Scholar and Gypsy” in which the couple is visiting India.

In class we came up with several examples of what makes up a travel narrative. Travel narratives go into foreign cultures in the characters point of view, mostly told in the first person point of view, and the character experiences a personal growth or change which may not always come voluntarily. All of the narratives we have read, save

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