Analysis Of Pico Iyer

While at first glance Pico Iyer’s joy of traveling and Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller romance film might not have much in common, they actually do share several similar ideas about travel and how it changes one as a person. Pico Iyer expounds on his various experiences with traveling across the world and its transformative power on your worldview in “Why We Travel”. Alfred Hitchcock tells the tale of an established business, rich with opinions, status, and money, who gets thrown into an adventure because of a mistake identity in North by Northwest. Pico Tyler best describes the main theme of this movie through his quote: “Thus travel spins us round in two ways at once: It shows us the sights and values and issues that we might ordinarily ignore; but also, and more deeply, shows us all the parts of ourselves that might otherwise grow rusty. For in traveling to a truly foreign place, we inevitably travel to moods and states of mind and hidden inward passages that we’d otherwise seldom have cause to visit.” Pico Iyer
Throughout the whole movie, the main character, Robert Thornhill has his

It was mentioned in the movie that Thornhill had two past wives and drinking issues. However, he had never expected to fall in love with the clever double agent Eve Kendall. He had never believed that he could become so deeply infatuated with a woman, and his romance with Kendall made him reevaluate himself. He was so enamored with her, her “betrayal” appeared all the more heartbreaking for him. Thornhill was infuriated and chased her to an auction just to insult and berate her. Although, this also made his realization that she was a double agent even more groundbreaking for him. Thornhill realizes there that he really does love her, unlike any other person that he had past liked. He finds forgiveness within himself and goes to save her from an almost definite