Jetty By Jamaica Kincaid: A Reflective Essay
Something that happens to everyone, something that is inevitable is that every ]character in a lot stories experience a point in time when they mature, develop and expand as a person.
Every experience of becoming a new person is different. That experience is mean to be there to teach the audience the moral of the story and a lesson to the character. Its different cause and result makes the story distinctive. In a story something that can be expressed as a trip or as a voyage is the new realization that a character discovers about them or people that surround them. This usually comes across as an epiphany or a change. Authors typically tend to pay a lot of attention to that.
In the short story named ‘a walk to the jetty’ by Jamaica Kincaid their main character’s name is Annie. During the story she was showing a strong desire to be free, to separate from her family and start a new life in England. It was clear that she was seeking independence and wanted to find her own identity.
Annie is at point in time where she experiences a lot of change. This important, life changing decision she is making would completely transform her life but it’s just the beginning because after all of this will she will become a mature grown adult.
As she is getting ready leave to her home country to go to England, where she will have a new home and start to live a new life. …show more content…
The audience realises that the theme of independence is shown when she says that she rather be living with seven unruly men than continue on with her current life, this evidently shows the readers that she is desperate to leave and she knows that she has to take advantage of this opportunity or she will never leave Antigua. The way she accepted the decision she made proves to the audience that she is serious about being independent which is a big part of an individual’s life as one
Every experience of becoming a new person is different. That experience is mean to be there to teach the audience the moral of the story and a lesson to the character. Its different cause and result makes the story distinctive. In a story something that can be expressed as a trip or as a voyage is the new realization that a character discovers about them or people that surround them. This usually comes across as an epiphany or a change. Authors typically tend to pay a lot of attention to that.
In the short story named ‘a walk to the jetty’ by Jamaica Kincaid their main character’s name is Annie. During the story she was showing a strong desire to be free, to separate from her family and start a new life in England. It was clear that she was seeking independence and wanted to find her own identity.
Annie is at point in time where she experiences a lot of change. This important, life changing decision she is making would completely transform her life but it’s just the beginning because after all of this will she will become a mature grown adult.
As she is getting ready leave to her home country to go to England, where she will have a new home and start to live a new life. …show more content…
The audience realises that the theme of independence is shown when she says that she rather be living with seven unruly men than continue on with her current life, this evidently shows the readers that she is desperate to leave and she knows that she has to take advantage of this opportunity or she will never leave Antigua. The way she accepted the decision she made proves to the audience that she is serious about being independent which is a big part of an individual’s life as one