island with people you despised‚ how would you feel? For the native islanders of Antigua‚ this was the case. But for one islander‚ Jamaica Kincaid‚ this misery not only became a reality‚ but also her motive for writing A Small Place. By analyzing her essay through the Psychological‚ Marxist‚ and Reader’s Response lenses‚ Kincaid’s use of language ties together a story of retribution. A Small Place reflects the psychological effects she was left with by colonization‚ the unfair social structure her
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In the short story "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid we are introduced a narrative from a mother to a daughter. The theme within the short story is about gender roles specifically women roles. Kincaid writes in a third person point of view that is receiving a list of commands and/or advice from her mother on how to act like a woman. The theme touches everything within the story with the way the mother is reiterating her advice to the child. The story starts off within the first few lines. “Soak your little
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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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describe travel writers who write about their native lands. Jamaica Kincaid‚ native to Antigua and an established travel author‚ wrote the 1988 essay‚ A Small Place‚ describing her feelings towards tourists and British colonialists and her native land of Antigua. Born in 1949 in British colonized Antigua‚ Kincaid and her family lived in relative poverty. Antigua gained its independence in 1981‚ so Kincaid spent her childhood under the British colonial cultural systems. Kincaid is an example of a travelee
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In the passage from Lucy: A Novel‚ by Jamaica Kincaid the narrator dramatizes the conflict between her desire to escape and her fear of the unknown. In the new situation she finds herself in‚ the narrator finds herself confronting an unknown environment‚ an unknown future‚ and unknown emotions. All of these question marks in her life force the narrator to instead reflect inward into her own sense of self and question her most basic perceptions of her place in the world. Ultimately‚ these factors
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that every ]character in a lot stories experience a point in time when they mature‚ develop and expand as a person. Every experience of becoming a new person is different. That experience is mean to be there to teach the audience the moral of the story and a lesson to the character. Its different cause and result makes the story distinctive. In a story something that can be expressed as a trip or as a voyage is the new realization that a character discovers about them or people that surround them
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this story seems as if it was in the past. the mother seems to have high expectations for the daughter‚ but does not feel as if she is getting through to her daughter. the mother in the story‚ was expected to know everything about domestic survival‚ she was considered the teacher for the girl in the story. she was offering advice but at the same time she was scolding the girl for her promiscuity. there is no structure to this prose poem‚ I think the author did this on purpose to show that the narrator
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Within the excerpt from the novel‚ Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid‚ the narrator is conflicted between two opposing forces‚ the longing for her identity and her familiar childhood‚ against the unfamiliar new environment she believed she would love. The new environment is too new and unfamiliar to adapt to‚ “but at first it was all so new that I had to smile with my mouth turned down at the corners” (Line 11). The narrator also wants to preserve her old self from her new surroundings which complicates her
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Many similarities and differences are found throughout “If” By Rudyard Kipling and “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid. These include the theme and meaning of the text‚ how the person talking delivered the information‚ and what the message the person was trying to get through. Those are the three things that will be compared and contrasted in this essay. The theme of these two texts share both a common theme and some parts of the theme that are different. For example “If” follows a somewhat make your own
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first time as a child it’s fascinating to you. England is like a diamond in the rough to young Jamaica Kincaid. When she thinks about England‚ she sees a great place and it’s unlike anything she’s ever seen before. In the essay "On Seeing England for the First Time‚" Jamaica Kincaid uses imagery‚ diction‚ and repetition to show her feelings of awe. In the essay "On Seeing England for the First Time" Kincaid uses imagery to express her feelings of awe toward England. She compares England to "Jerusalem
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