Ladies and Gentlemen
When you become a senior citizen, you dream several dreams about the retirement; time enough to do whatever you want. You hope that the future of your children will be bright - that they will be happy, maybe even just as happy as you feel you have been. You may think that the children would wish the same for yourself, but they do not always wish the best for their parents... Some children might be greedy, en-vious or even that tired of waiting that they would do absolutely everything, just to get their inheritance instantly, even though they would have inherited the money even-tually. The passengers aboard the cruise ship S.S. Ariel are all senior citizens. (Line 48): Well, yes sir, it's true that you are all aboard the S.S. Ariel; and yes ma'am, it's certainly true that you are all of "retirement age". They are all Americans and have all got ex-pensive cameras and video equipment, ergo; they must all be upper middle class, if not rich. (It also says in the text that they belong to upper middle) The American senior citizens aboard Ariel are all educated, cultured; al-most everyone. And most importantly they all love their children. These people have planned everything; even their parenthood.
Now when they are adults they have been affected by the society so that they have become greedy, maybe, in America, the only way to out-live the American dream is indeed to be greedy one way or the other. The society described in the text is something I can recognize, not from rea-lity but from soap-operas and cheep movies. It has been decided to use this deserted island, to get rid of unwanted parents. The more they have received during their up-bringing, the more they feel they are being cheated. That last sentence is very im-portant I think: "Nothing is too good or too expensive for the children. its jungle interior is dotted with treacherous bogs of quick-sand. That is why I can not believe such a thing could occur in reality. I think they would have been more grateful and respectful. It might sound hilarious in the ears of some persons, but greed and jealousy have made this sur-real fantasy come true.
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