The Accidental Tourist | Social Concerns
The violence that appears so regularly in newspapers and on the nightly television news is at the heart of The Accidental Tourist. Macon Leary's son is one statistic of that violence, an innocent bystander murdered at a robbery. The random nature of the violence and its indication of his inability to control all his experiences disturbs Macon, who along with his son, is a victim of the violence. By having the action take place offstage and before the events in the novel begin, Tyler avoids the sensationalism often seen on the news and focuses attention on the suffering of the...
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