Rhetorical Analysis Of On Seeing England For The First Time
Rhetorical Analysis of “On Seeing England for the First Time”
“On seeing England for the first time” by Jamaica Kincaid was published by Indiana University Press on behalf of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute. Kincaid believes that she is a product of a culture that was forced upon her. She describes how angry she feels growing up in Antigua with the dark shadow of England continually looming over her. Antigua is an island in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands of the Caribbean region, the main island of the country of Antigua and Barbuda. Antigua was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493, the Spanish were replaced by the British in 1632. The British started to produce sugar cane on the island, and this production was supported by slavery. …show more content…
The cars were made in England. People wore English fabric and dressed up in English fashion. Her dad wore a brown felt hat his entire life, even though they lived in a tropical island. This “British environment” was also present during her breakfast. The first phrase that she read in the mornings was “Made in England,” on the cocoa can and on the oat can. These three words were everywhere. Kincaid appears to have a strong ethos because she went through all the difficulties of colonial segregation.
Kincaid also talks about the way she was educated; at school the first thing that she had learned was the England map. It looked like a leg of mutton for her. Also, she used to sing hymns and recited poems about England. When she was a child, she knew so many things about England, but she had never been in England at that time. Kincaid described England was so detailed and very chauvinistic in some way. She is telling us how her environment influenced upon her to believe how great the old England was, and how much everyone around her adores the country. Kincaid uses anaphora, antithesis, metaphor, simile, and many other figures and syntactic manipulations. One could also take the question about the structure of her argument and expand that to a full analysis of her argument about the oppressiveness and invasiveness of colonialism and its eradication of those unfortunate enough to
“On seeing England for the first time” by Jamaica Kincaid was published by Indiana University Press on behalf of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute. Kincaid believes that she is a product of a culture that was forced upon her. She describes how angry she feels growing up in Antigua with the dark shadow of England continually looming over her. Antigua is an island in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands of the Caribbean region, the main island of the country of Antigua and Barbuda. Antigua was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493, the Spanish were replaced by the British in 1632. The British started to produce sugar cane on the island, and this production was supported by slavery. …show more content…
The cars were made in England. People wore English fabric and dressed up in English fashion. Her dad wore a brown felt hat his entire life, even though they lived in a tropical island. This “British environment” was also present during her breakfast. The first phrase that she read in the mornings was “Made in England,” on the cocoa can and on the oat can. These three words were everywhere. Kincaid appears to have a strong ethos because she went through all the difficulties of colonial segregation.
Kincaid also talks about the way she was educated; at school the first thing that she had learned was the England map. It looked like a leg of mutton for her. Also, she used to sing hymns and recited poems about England. When she was a child, she knew so many things about England, but she had never been in England at that time. Kincaid described England was so detailed and very chauvinistic in some way. She is telling us how her environment influenced upon her to believe how great the old England was, and how much everyone around her adores the country. Kincaid uses anaphora, antithesis, metaphor, simile, and many other figures and syntactic manipulations. One could also take the question about the structure of her argument and expand that to a full analysis of her argument about the oppressiveness and invasiveness of colonialism and its eradication of those unfortunate enough to