author‚ Jamaica Kincaid’s use of the character of Annie John to reflect a young girl’s development in the Caribbean society in the late 1950’s. Kincaid’s self reliance provides a basic foundation for the character of Annie John portrayed as Kincaid and her struggle to find individuality in a male privileged century. Annie seeks capability to separate from her mother; the male privileges occurring in her home and community of Antigua; and the progressions in herself. Annie‚ like Kincaid is living
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“Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid is a short story/poem was published in The New Yorker in 1978. There are many things that the story “Girl” shows us. One is the oppression of women and the lack of the options that women got. Another is the change in parenting techniques as orders like these wouldn’t be issued in today’s world. The narrator also shows how the gender role has grown since the late 1970s‚ shows the little girl protesting toward her mother‚ and shows the love a mother has for her daughter.
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The beginning of A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid opens in second-person and talks about the tourism in a post-independent Antigua‚ in the British West Indies. Written in the 1980’s the book is a natives view on how Antigua operates today‚ and how it differs from the past. The opening section keenly addresses the reader as "you" and describes how beautiful Antigua used to be. She addresses topics in the first section such as the natives of the island‚ and how much you will never actually truly
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In Jamaica Kincaid’s article “On seeing England for the First Time”‚ she demonstrates the how her opinion‚ filled with bitterness and hate for England‚ was shaped by an oppressive and influential culture. Although she expresses a hint of reverence towards England early on in her essay‚ she consistently shows signs of bitterness and resentment towards England throughout the article using parallelism‚ a sarcastic tone‚ and strong diction. Even in instances where she tries to make England sound appealing
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Jamaica Kincaid‚ born Elaine Cynthia Potter‚ has clearly never been content with accepting the world as presented to her. She changed her name‚ as she felt it wasn’t representative of her origins or the history of her bloodline. Moreover‚ her name wasn’t the only name she had a problem with; in her passage‚”In History‚” she undertakes the enormous task of demolishing and reestablishing our understanding of the names we encounter on a daily basis. Through intentionally withholding information and
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In the novel Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid‚ I identified concepts that are still being used in modern society. For instance‚ when she is discussing about her father’s death and the roles her mother would take on around the house to help. It is interesting that today we still follow the ideals of women and their role in a marriage as if it was the 1990’s‚ although we have slowly been trying to break the chain there has not been progress. However‚ I found the way she handled the death of her father and the
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Alice delphino ENG1101 Mrs. Harris 18 August 2009 In Jamaica Kincaid’s short story “Girl‚” the mother is very disapproving of her daughter’s attitude towards life. She wants to educate her daughter about developing into a respectable woman‚ domesticating herself and proper etiquette in the presence of men. The relationship between mother and daughter depicts a traditional Caribbean “dictatorship” in which the mother shows her love in a controlling manner and the daughter’s only option is to
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106-16 Hoeflinger 25 Feb 2014 Girl What makes a woman? Femininity and masculinity have long been defined and divided along gender lines that were never meant to be crossed; a man or woman who does not fit the archetypical picture of their strict gender-biased boundaries is shunned and stereotyped. A woman who does not embody the perception of the perfect wife and mother‚ especially in the 1950s-60s‚ would have been considered unladylike. In Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl”‚ the matters of womanhood and
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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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If you were stuck on an island with people you despised‚ how would you feel? For the native islanders of Antigua‚ this was the case. But for one islander‚ Jamaica Kincaid‚ this misery not only became a reality‚ but also her motive for writing A Small Place. By analyzing her essay through the Psychological‚ Marxist‚ and Reader’s Response lenses‚ Kincaid’s use of language ties together a story of retribution. A Small Place reflects the psychological effects she was left with by colonization‚ the unfair
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