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Read Chapter I of R. M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island. Ralph introduces travel as a lifelong passion, links it to family history and remembers his departure for the Pacific. Compare his excitement with his mother’s request that he return. Keep the narrator’s enthusiasm separate from the second-hand descriptions he repeats: his account is a perspective to examine, not neutral information about other peoples.
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