1.Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” is a daughter’s mimicry of how her mother tells her to perform housekeeping and other sensitive topics for proper behavior. Because of the content and demanding tone‚ do you find the mother abusive and demeaning‚ or is something else going on? The mother seems to be abusive‚ demeaning and cold. Her tone throughout the story is critical and commanding. The way she talks to her daughter makes me feel as if there were no warm feelings in their relationship. The mother gives
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‘Girl’ is an astonishing prose poem written by Jamaica Kincaid‚ this is one of the monologue that is easily imagined in a clear dramatic context. The irony of this prose poem come from the title given to it “Girl” because the girl only gets to speak two line through out the text and the rest is covered by the mother. The prose poem consists of single sentences about a mother advising her daughter about femininity‚ society‚ traditions and sexuality. Throughout the text‚ the use of single sentence
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“Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid is written about a girl who is being told how to behave by her mother. The mother is constantly telling her how to act. Though at times it definitely feels like the mother is scolding her‚ especially when it comes to acting like a slut. The mother keeps giving her advice that she thinks will help her daughter succeed in life. I think the mother obviously cares very much about her daughter or she would not bother giving her all this advice‚ but it comes across as over bearing
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from Jamaica Kincaid’s story Girl quickly drew my attention. Most of what I had read otherwise sounded very much like what a tough mom would dictate to a young daughter. However‚ all of the slut references has me a little confused. I believe that most conversations between mothers and daughters is probably a little less abrasive and the content is more modern. However‚ the basic idea is about the same. Young girls are a much less likely to take in barked orders like what is read in Girl considering
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Women nowadays are not worried about society‚ women tend to behave more liberal and find happiness in self dependency. Women do not care how the world will criticized her daughter because both men and women sees each other equal. However‚ A while back‚ being a women was the toughest job.Women were just typical housewives who had to take care of her family and sometimes they had to self-sacrifice because she worries how the society will view her. In “The Girl‚” the writer Jamaica Kincaid shows how
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Girl Elaine Potter Richardson famous for the short story written titled “Girl” was born in Antigua in the British West Indies in 1949. Well who is Jamaica Kincaid one may ask? Well they are the same person. Elaine changed her name to Jamaica Kincaid when she started writing because her family disapproved of her career as a writer. Kincaid moved to New York at the age of seventeen where she met a columnist named George S. Trow while working for a nanny who helped her writing to be publish
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Feminist View of “Girl” Erin O’Brien South University Online Composition II/Literature November 3‚ 2011 Professor Chwala Feminist View of “Girl” In order to properly view a story from a feminist perspective‚ it is important that the reader fully understands what the feminist perspective entails. “There are many feminist perspectives‚ and each perspective uses different approaches to analyze and interpret texts. One is that gender is “socially constructed” and another is that power is
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After reading Jamaica Kincaid’s “On Seeing England for the First Time” it’s evident that Kincaid’s life revolved around the English. Jamaica Kincaid grew up like one of the English from eating huge portions for breakfast‚ to her father buying the same hat that was “Made in England”‚ but what really stood out was Kincaid’s street name: John Hawkins. Kincaid’s grew up in St.Johns Antigua‚ Ovals where there were five streets “each of them named after a famous English seaman…” her street was John Hawkins
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And Then It All Died In Jamaica Kincaid’s short story‚ “On Seeing England for the First Time‚” reality and idea are distinguished. More often than not‚ the idea of something is and it’s reality are not compatible‚ and we see this kind of discovery most often when growing up‚ and when comparing my idea of adulthood with the reality‚ I feel the same kind of resentment Kincaid has towards England. Jamaica Kincaid does an excellent job building up her expectations of England and then showing the disappointment
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Plot is an element of fiction that if narrated well‚ can shape a character and intrigue a reader. Susan Minot and Jamaica Kincaid demonstrate in their respective short stories‚ "Lust" and "Girl" that this component is not necessarily required in order to create a character. Moreover‚ in these two cases the creation of the main character is stronger through the abstinence of this feature. Through explication of the text‚ we can see how the overpowering strength of the characters makes up for the
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