Kincaid: The Quarrels Between Her Brother And Her Mother

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This statement shows the annoyance, that leads to anger, deriving from the constant asking that her brother does without any other purpose for interacting with his own sister. This thought places Kincaid in not respecting the family bond that is with her own blood relatives. Kincaid’s elicitation of the idea that the quarrels between her family members, holding lives of their own comes with many prominent examples that are mostly geared towards her brother and her mother relationship. A couple of times throughout the novel Kincaid makes an emphasis on the unstable relationship that she has with her mother, while pointing out that she doesn’t not consider her mother as her own mother.This statement is made when she reaches the point of expressing

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