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In Jamaica’s essay, “Seeing England for the First Time”, Jamaica reflects her background history and the difficulties of adapting to a new world throughout her writing. In the beginning Jamaica introduces a girl whose life has been wrapped around the idea that England is a land of the prosperous and of the beautiful. Her image of England is morphed from the upbringing of family members who value England more than their origin and from her environment in school that teaches students to act “in the English way” (278). Jamaica describes her battle of oppression that her environment surrounds her with. On her way to see England for the first time, Jamaica describes her high expectations. How her whole life she has been described this beautiful
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