girl by jamaica kincaid
Mikayla Cooper
Mr.Brand
10th Honors B block
8/12/13
“Girl”
In the short story “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid the author gives a perspective of the relationship between a strict mother and her young daughter. Jamaica Kincaid wrote series of sentences that sets the tone of the story to be uptight, oppressive, and informative. The author described her daughter into becoming a ‘slut’ which tells the readers that the mother is worried and is disapproving of her daughters actions. Others might think that the story is only about the daughter repeating what her mother tells her to do but it really it’s the perspective of the mother trying to prevent her daughter from becoming a ‘slut’ and changing her to become a lady.
Although others may think otherwise that the character who plays girl, is in fact making a mockery of her mother’s commands. In theory people may say that the mother repeated herself so often about her daughter’s behavior and teaching her how to do her responsibilities correctly that the daughter have memorized her mother’s lectures and began to repeat them to herself to show rebellion against these tasks.
With the attention to the dialogue, shows the mother lecturing her daughter. In the beginning the author wrote “but I don’t sing benna on Sundays” (line 7) in an italicized format giving the idea that someone, in this case the daughter, is responding to her mother’s lecturing trying to defend herself. This goes to show that the poem is in fact a conversation held by a mother and a young girl with disapproving behaviors causing her mother to scold those unacceptable behaviors.
Throughout the poem lists a few teachings into having a good behavior and proper manners. There are specific ways the mother instructed her daughter to do her chores. For example, “this is how you smile to someone you don’t like” (line),”this is how to set a table for dinner”, and “this is how to bully a man”. The lists goes on and I can relate to these rules. My mother taught me the
Mr.Brand
10th Honors B block
8/12/13
“Girl”
In the short story “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid the author gives a perspective of the relationship between a strict mother and her young daughter. Jamaica Kincaid wrote series of sentences that sets the tone of the story to be uptight, oppressive, and informative. The author described her daughter into becoming a ‘slut’ which tells the readers that the mother is worried and is disapproving of her daughters actions. Others might think that the story is only about the daughter repeating what her mother tells her to do but it really it’s the perspective of the mother trying to prevent her daughter from becoming a ‘slut’ and changing her to become a lady.
Although others may think otherwise that the character who plays girl, is in fact making a mockery of her mother’s commands. In theory people may say that the mother repeated herself so often about her daughter’s behavior and teaching her how to do her responsibilities correctly that the daughter have memorized her mother’s lectures and began to repeat them to herself to show rebellion against these tasks.
With the attention to the dialogue, shows the mother lecturing her daughter. In the beginning the author wrote “but I don’t sing benna on Sundays” (line 7) in an italicized format giving the idea that someone, in this case the daughter, is responding to her mother’s lecturing trying to defend herself. This goes to show that the poem is in fact a conversation held by a mother and a young girl with disapproving behaviors causing her mother to scold those unacceptable behaviors.
Throughout the poem lists a few teachings into having a good behavior and proper manners. There are specific ways the mother instructed her daughter to do her chores. For example, “this is how you smile to someone you don’t like” (line),”this is how to set a table for dinner”, and “this is how to bully a man”. The lists goes on and I can relate to these rules. My mother taught me the