Comparing Jamaica Kincaid's Essay 'Sowers And Reapers'

In the essay “Sowers and Reapers,” Jamaica Kincaid revealed a bitter attitude for both speeches about “the Holocaust garden” and the garden on the Middleton Place Plantation. Chicago recreated the garden of Auschwitz. The prisoners of Auschwitz faced death while they worked on the garden. Both the garden Auschwitz and the Garden of Eden used the quadripartite garden style. This style of a garden was quite common. Kincaid said that her favorite garden was the Garden of Eden. The recreation of the garden of Auschwitz was the “Holocaust garden.” Kincaid couldn’t compare the Garden of Eden to the garden of Auschwitz because of the roots of the holocaust. This created a bitter thought for Kincaid. She describes how the garden on the Middleton Place Plantation had individual spots for specific flowers. She thought the garden was beautiful. Slaves made the garden. Kincaid felt the bitterness. The …show more content…
Kincaid mentioned those gardens contained “sowers” and “reapers.” The Sowers of the replicated garden in Chicago were the prisoners. The reapers were the Germans who held all the prisoners to work until sentenced to death. In the Middleton Place plantation the slaves were the sowers and the slave owners were the reapers. In Kincaid’s garden the laborers were the sowers and she was the reaper. Her opinions varied about “sowers” and “reapers.” Each garden had a different magnitude of sowers and reapers. The magnitude of racism in the “Holocaust garden.” The magnitude of slavery in the Middleton Place Plantation. Kincaid viewed both with great disgust. Her variation is when she viewed herself. She exchanged a check for a bill. Kincaid described it with complete respect; no injustice or disgust directed toward her in any form. She gave the laborers each a bottle of champagne for their services. Kincaid described how a garden is not a place of rest and repose. Each garden had a history of sowers and