How To Grow Oka Summary
Thesis: The mother shows she's loving and caring towards the daughter
The mother shows she's loving and caring of daughter by her tone in the story. The mother’s tone reveals her to be nurturing but also shows elements of potty for her daughter also. Early on the mother states that she is trying to “prevent” her daughter from looking “Like the slut you are so bent on becoming” (Kincaid 185). The mother later goes on to express to the daughter “ This is how you sweep a whole house” or “How to grow okara”(Kincaid 185). The two previous statements explains and show in its own how the mother is taking her daughter underneath her wing and transition her into a what's known as a women in this particular society. Lastly is the pity the mother reveals …show more content…
In this society which takes places on a Caribbean Island being a “Slut” is looked down upon by your peers at large (Kincaid 185).This fact is shown at the end of the passage where the mother explains to the daughter “After all you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker won't let near the bread”(Kincaid 185). The mother realizing the daughter is naive is trying to drill through the daughter's head that being looked upon in such a fashion is very bad in the society and would be considered to be low on the totem pole. And throughout the text the Author repeatedly used the saying “This is how to” (Kincaid 185). This gave the off the impression that the mother is caring. It shows the mothers caring based on the fact that she's teaching her daughter step by step how to be a independent woman. The mother realizes that daughter is in a society that really sets the standard of how a woman acts or how a woman goes about her day to day life. So the mother being a nurture and care giver for the daughter will go a long way in how or what the daughter will turn out to be in the long run. Either the daughter will become the slut she's “bent” on becoming or a good
The mother shows she's loving and caring of daughter by her tone in the story. The mother’s tone reveals her to be nurturing but also shows elements of potty for her daughter also. Early on the mother states that she is trying to “prevent” her daughter from looking “Like the slut you are so bent on becoming” (Kincaid 185). The mother later goes on to express to the daughter “ This is how you sweep a whole house” or “How to grow okara”(Kincaid 185). The two previous statements explains and show in its own how the mother is taking her daughter underneath her wing and transition her into a what's known as a women in this particular society. Lastly is the pity the mother reveals …show more content…
In this society which takes places on a Caribbean Island being a “Slut” is looked down upon by your peers at large (Kincaid 185).This fact is shown at the end of the passage where the mother explains to the daughter “After all you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker won't let near the bread”(Kincaid 185). The mother realizing the daughter is naive is trying to drill through the daughter's head that being looked upon in such a fashion is very bad in the society and would be considered to be low on the totem pole. And throughout the text the Author repeatedly used the saying “This is how to” (Kincaid 185). This gave the off the impression that the mother is caring. It shows the mothers caring based on the fact that she's teaching her daughter step by step how to be a independent woman. The mother realizes that daughter is in a society that really sets the standard of how a woman acts or how a woman goes about her day to day life. So the mother being a nurture and care giver for the daughter will go a long way in how or what the daughter will turn out to be in the long run. Either the daughter will become the slut she's “bent” on becoming or a good