A Small Place By Jamaica Kincaid

The book A Small Place written by Jamaica Kincaid is recognized by a number of scholars highlighting how the material exposes readers to the past and present culture of the narrator's native country Antigua, corruption in the Antiguan government, English colonialism and etc. However, one should take notice that Kincaid speaking in the second person in different sessions of the book represents and creates a connection between the tourist and the reader. The term "you" refers to the tourist/travelers as people who take pleasure and/or romanticize over countries poverty. Kincaid points out that they fail to comprehend that the attractions they idolize are a diversion of the misinterpret realities the natives have to experience every day. This
A tourist making light of the construction of the roads as if it is amusing or getting the foreign experience degrades the value of the country. Every country has its attributes and its flaws but romanticizing over the imperfections as if it is exotic or authentic to North America displays the ignorance of people. As a whole, it should be recognized how Antiguans taking in consideration tourist attitude as a concept to serving as an explanation for the chain reaction of events that occur when western ideas become instilled in communities outside North America. In the same fashion, examining the section where the narrator breakdowns down the tourist as “an ugly human being” going into detail how their actions have become problematic in Antigua sheds light on the stripped identity that area has faced (14). In addition, focuses on the perspective natives reading between the lines of the behavior of travelers. On the behalf of community members, it is frustrating to witness the downhill of their beloved home when those who continuously foster corruption have no clue that their actions have consequences in the first place. The text