Analyzing Kincaid's 'White Removal Of Dover'
3. Kincaid regards the British influence under which she was raised through the British lifestyle her community tries to imitate and her school education. She mentions that most people at where she was raised attempt to live as British as possible, including her own parents. In paragraph 2, Kincaid says that her father really likes hats with the British style, so he wears hats that are made in England all the time, and “it was the first thing he put on in the morning as he stepped out of bed and the last thing he took off before he stepped back into bed at night”. Besides the British influence in lifestyle, Kincaid also regards the British impact on her education at school. Students have to learn everything about England at school, and being
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Even though the transition between the interesting description of the British influence of where Kincaid was raised and her serious discussion about the consequences of those forceful influence began at paragraph 4, Kincaid’s epiphany actually occurs in the last paragraph of the essay when she was disappointed by the view of the white cliffs of Dover because she said that “the moment I wished every sentence, everything I knew, that began with England would end with ‘and then it all died, we don’t know how, it just all died’ was when I saw the white cliffs of Dover.” The white cliffs of Dover is just like England because they are both places that Kincaid have been taught that are grand and fascinating. She had to learn everything about England, and she “had sung hymns and recited poems that were about a longing to see the white cliffs of Dover again”. However, neither the white cliffs of Dover nor England met her expectation. When she finally saw the white cliffs of Dover, she realized that people “would only call them that if the word ‘white’ meant something special to them” because the cliffs were actually “dirty and they were steep”. The white cliffs of Dover is a metaphor for the England that is known to be good, but is only good for people who actually belong to
Even though the transition between the interesting description of the British influence of where Kincaid was raised and her serious discussion about the consequences of those forceful influence began at paragraph 4, Kincaid’s epiphany actually occurs in the last paragraph of the essay when she was disappointed by the view of the white cliffs of Dover because she said that “the moment I wished every sentence, everything I knew, that began with England would end with ‘and then it all died, we don’t know how, it just all died’ was when I saw the white cliffs of Dover.” The white cliffs of Dover is just like England because they are both places that Kincaid have been taught that are grand and fascinating. She had to learn everything about England, and she “had sung hymns and recited poems that were about a longing to see the white cliffs of Dover again”. However, neither the white cliffs of Dover nor England met her expectation. When she finally saw the white cliffs of Dover, she realized that people “would only call them that if the word ‘white’ meant something special to them” because the cliffs were actually “dirty and they were steep”. The white cliffs of Dover is a metaphor for the England that is known to be good, but is only good for people who actually belong to