Question

On the whole, Andrea and I had a good time on the President Taft. In the evenings we often watched movies. In the afternoons we made pigs of ourselves at tea where we had our pick of all kinds of dainty sandwiches, scones, macaroons, chocolate bonbons, and gooey tarts. Actually, I even liked going to bed on shipboard. I'd lie in my bunk and feel the ship's engines throbbing and know that even when I fell asleep I wouldn't be wasting time. I'd still be on the go, moving closer to America every minute. What is most likely the narrator's goal for this paragraph

Answer 1

To shape how the reader sees the experience of traveling on the President Taft.

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Answer 2

The answer is to be found in the last sentence.

Step-by-step explanation:

First the narrator describes a pleasant journey on a ship and then uses the sentence where she ( I imagine a woman, I don´t know why) talks about sleeping on the ship to express the most important thing about this journey: it brings her (or him) closer to America every minute. As a traveller myself (but not a tourist) I can understand very well the importance of travelling and enjoying yourself while shortening the distance to your goal.

The reason why I don´t like tourism is because travel is converted into mere displacement.