For this assignment, you will write out a fictitious letter to a tour company, hotel, cruise ship, or airline, describing a vacation, adventure, or mishap that occurred with them. It can be set anywhere, during any time, and you may write it from your perspective or someone else's. You may be sincere, serious, ridiculous, ironic, or any combination thereof. You may write it from the perspective of a pop diva fresh off a trip aboard the Mayflower and complain about the food, or discuss the view at a motel on a family adventure; you could congratulate a space-tour company on their amenities on your trip to Pluto from the perspective of a cat, or anything you'd like.
The rules are that it must be under 250 words, in the format of a letter, and it must contain at least one instance of all of the elements listed below.
Example:
To Whom It May Concern:[15] Our Memorial Day[1] weekend aboard your flagship, the Star Princess[5,20],[10]was certainly something to be remembered. Although the Moroccan[6] food did not agree with Grandpa[4],[9] Morocco[2] definitely agreed with me. Really,[8] the journey was quite lovely. We were all (except for Grandpa[4])[19] very pleasantly surprised that the Nathaniel Hawthorne Appreciation Society[3] (NHAS)[19] was having a convention aboard your ship. In their meeting,[8] they covered my favorite major themes of The Scarlet Letter[5,20]:[14]The ambiguity of the letter "A" on Hester's chest; Hawthorne's treatment of innocence, knowledge, sin,[7] the darkness in mankind's hearts; and of course individuals—in this case Hester, Pearl,[7] and Dimmesdale—[18]and their relation to society. It was enlightening;[16] it was also entertaining. Although Grandpa said, "I can't stand that old goat Hawthorne and his personal 'innate depravity'[12] issues,"[11] he had a good time sipping lemonade and listening to "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay"[13] on his iPod.™ As he so aptly stated: "I'm on a one-way[17] trip to 'chillville.'[12]" Thanks again, Doris Mutford