"Meetin Maung-Maung" Post

I believe the main theme of Iyer's essay is to focus more on relationships with people rather than relationships with money. Maung-Maung in the essay is very people-oriented and he believes the only way for him to be happy is by meeting tourists and helping them rather than getting a job for the sake of the income. One effective language use was when Maung-Maung's mother described her inability to read as being "blind" (Iyer 23), this stuck out to me because I sometimes take my reading skills for granted and less-fortunate people see not being able to read as the equivalent of being blind and disabled. Another effective language use was Maung-Maung's quote that "Experience, I believe, is the best teacher" (Iyer 20), this stuck out to me because many things can be learned by simply observing or being submerged in the learning rather than 'standard' classroom teaching.