Summary Of Girl By Jamaica Kincaid

The Plight of the Slave The fiction article “Girl”, by Jamaica Kincaid, is a historically based tail about the plight of slave women on the islands of the Caribbean. Her article depicts what seems to be one slave instructing another on what they were expected to do. She rattles of an enormous list of chores constantly coming back to the point that the new slave should avoid appearing to be a slut at all cost. This is a very odd and somewhat confusing thing to say to a new slave, and to understand, one must know the context. It is not unlikely that the slave that is teaching this new person has some knowledge of the things that go on among particularly evil masters and their slaves. It is almost certain that some men used a particularly