Throughout the short story “Girl‚” Jamaica Kincaid tells a story about a mother giving her daughter advice about growing up through a series of semicolons and run on sentences within a single paragraph. This technique Kincaid uses through the course of her short story is quite an unusual approach to the reader at first. Usually‚ short stories consist of completely structured sentences and multiple paragraphs. Although Kincaid’s structure in “Girl” is constructed in an untraditional manner‚ it plays
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Language and communication The abrupt nature of the utterances in Top Girls reflects a style of playwriting that is more modern‚ where a short sentence can be loaded with meaning. The minimal use of words lays bare the main issues while allowing much dramatic effect through their simplicity. There is more strength in what is not said‚ and the clarity of speech does not mean that there are fewer issues to decode. The language of misogyny‚ appropriated by women‚ is apparent in Joyce’s swearing at
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Nick DeCandio Lars and the real girl December 5‚2011 The character of Lars seems to be a fantastical person who couldn’t really exist in real life. Truth is‚ there are many people like him who struggle to have relationships with others due to mental illness. Lars is able to find a way to channel his insecurities of personal relationships onto Bianca‚ whom is a realistic looking sex doll. Ironically‚ Lars never has sex with Bianca‚ he treats her as a real human being and forces his community
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Jamaica Kincaid- Girl The poem "Girl" by author Jamaica Kincaid shows love and family togetherness by creating microcosmic images of the way mothers raise their children in order to survive. Upon closer examination‚ the reader sees that the text is a string of images in Westerner Caribbean family practices. Jamaica Kincaid has taken common advice that daughters are constantly hearing from their mothers and tied them into a series of commands that a mother uses to prevent her daughter from
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Girls‚ the nature of belonging is complex and abstract and so a true sense of belonging can be found in different circumstances for different people. Many individuals find the strongest sense of belonging through intrinsic factors such as relationships‚ rather than through extrinsic factors such as social status or nationality. This is due to the fact that by nature relationships fulfil the human need for social interaction and enrich the lives of the persons involved. | After looking at as you like
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10/17/10 Throwing Like a Girl 1. Fallow acknowledges the objections of feminists to the phrase “throwing like a girl.” Yet that is not the only derogatory phrase towards women. Activities such as football‚ hockey and hunting are mainly men’s sports too. It is clear that women gather more negative associations than the male population. Feminists challenge the phrase “throwing like a girl” because it is proven that men and women’s shoulders are aligned similarly and there are no structural differences
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Shanda Reed Mrs. Stausing Honors English II Book Report February 28‚ 2013 Living Dead Girl Breakdown In the book Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott‚ a young girl named Alice deals with several conflicts between herself‚ her abductor‚ and the world throughout her short life. In Alice’s life she is kidnapped and taken away from the life she knows at the age of ten years old by a man named Ray. Ray beats‚ molests‚ and starves Alice on a daily basis. Alice is fighting with herself because she
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Dominique Johnson Professor John Oriji History 430 Yoruba Girl Dancing Part II Colonization Leads to Interlacing of Cultures Reading the second half of Yoruba Girl Dancing one thing I enjoyed most was the description of the many different cultures that Remi was forced to live amongst. These cultures included the European culture of the upper class Nigerian in Lagos‚ the culture of being at the private school‚ the working class British culture‚ the lifestyle of Germans who wanted well and
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Name Instructor Course Date Summary: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson The book begins with Mikael Blomkvist‚ an investigative reporter with Millennium‚ being found guilty of libel against a powerful business mogul named Hans-Erik Wennerstrom. He is determined to clear his name‚ and after receiving a call from Henrik Vanger’s lawyer‚ he learns of the disappearance of Vanger’s grand-niece‚ Harriet Vanger. Blomkvist takes a temporary absence leave from Millennium and consents to
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Reflections on Jamaica Kincaid’s Short Story‚ Girl Seeing a child who is ostracized for being a slut is a mother’s worst nightmare. The short story Girl‚ is a perfect example; insofar as‚ it deals with the experience of being a young female in a poor country‚ and a mother’s concern for her daughter’s respect. Girl mainly consists of single lined sentences of advice that the mother gives to her daughter in order to prevent her from losing respect for becoming a slut. However‚ in doing so
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