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JAPAN AND BRAZIL THROUGH A TRAVELER’S EYE Introduction: Travel writing is about writing ones experience of travelling and visiting alien places. The writer, George Mikes, writes about his travelling experiences of Japan and Brazil in his work ‘The Rising of the Yen’ and ‘How To Tango’. Japanese Manner : The writer is impressed by exquisitely well – mannered people of Japan. Though they live in a small over crowded Island, they respect others’ privacy. They don’t over hear the others conversation. So courtesy has a double function as it is courtesy and it is substitute for privacy. They conduct their confidential business transactions, intimate love quarrels in public in perfect privacy. A man’s telephone – receiver is his castle. Bowing : Japanese bow to each other with a ceremonious and dignified way, yet with a great deal of natural grace. Bowing is a mania. Bowing is quainter, formal and oriental and infectious too. Japanese have a complicated hierarchy in bowing: who bows t...

I BELIEVE THAT BOOKS WILL NEVER DISAPPEAR Mother : Jorge Luis Borgers mother was an extra – ordinary and kind person. He feels guilty for not having been a happy man in order to have given her a deserved happiness. He generally his experience and says that children take their mother for granted, one realises the fact when she dies. They feel they have taken her for granted as we do with the moon the sun and the seasons. He believes that she had no enemies and was very kind to him. All that is ear becomes far/can humiliation and misfortune be transmuted? Borges, while speaking about blindness, says that Blindness has become a way of life. All persons must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose like humiliations, misfortunes and our embarrassments given to us as raw material as clay so that we may shape our art. We must transmute them, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our life to produce eter...