celiagarden

Château de Chillon

Frankfurt

    Paradises are always the final destination of travelers but are inevitably spoiled by them in the end. The ideal paradises must have astonishing beauty and heavenly peace. By their very nature, paradises are essentially isolated from people to avoid pollution. Because paradises are irresistible to travelers, more and more travelers would go to the paradises to experience their beauty and peace. But the destruction and the disturbance brought by travelers eventually put paradises in jeopardy. Hence, to live in the paradises is initially a joy but turns out to be a disaster. The Beach illustrates this problem that all travelers have. In short, travelers are unaware that they usually spoil the paradises in two ways. The first way is that they ruin the environment of the paradises. The second way is that they destroy the peace of the paradises. 

    Most travelers have a tendency to bring worldly things, more or less, to where they settle. This is the first way that the travelers ruin the environment of the paradises. In fact, in order to make their lives more comfortable, travelers like to develop the paradises. This development includes transportation, housing, and entertainment. One example presenting the housing development of the paradise in The Beach is, “At first glance, the camp…[has] a large, dusty clearing surrounded by trees, with some huts and a few tents. At the far end was a larger building, a longhouse, and beside it the stream from the waterfall reappeared” (20). Another example showing the entertainment development of the paradise is, “Sal had organized a huge team of football” (27). Indeed, too many developments make the paradise become very plastic. As a consequence, paradises are no longer paradises since travelers ruin the natural beauty of the paradises.