Useful Advice for a Daughter or No? You Decide.
“Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid is a poem with a universal theme that speaks to the relationships between mothers and daughters. This poem reflects the author’s own childhood and the culture in which she was raised. The mother imparts advice and wisdom to her young daughter about growing up and becoming a woman. Although, the advice the mother gives to her daughter could be applicable, some may perceive it to be very generalized and judgemental. In the poem “Girl” Kincaid writes about a mother giving life advice to her daughter throughout the whole poem; a poem of which relates to Kincaid’s life. “The way I became a writer was that my mother wrote my life for me and told it to me”( SUNY PRESS). “Girl” starts off when the mother tells her daughter how to …show more content…
However, that is just one piece of useful advice that the mother gives her daughter in the poem. The mother is passing down the wisdom of women before her and is teaching her daughter was she believes is useful in life.
Which is what every mother wants to teach their daughter or daughters. Some of the key advice the mother tells her daughter is useful, to help her succeed later in life. The first piece of advice the mother gives her daughter is on how to accomplish the chores she has to finish. For example, ironing her dad’s khaki pants and learning how to catch a fish and knowing if the fish is worth keeping. The next very strong piece of advice the mother gives to her daughter is when she says “This is how to make a good medicine to throw away a child before it even becomes a child”(Kincaid, 321). This quote talks about how the daughter reached the age
“Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid is a poem with a universal theme that speaks to the relationships between mothers and daughters. This poem reflects the author’s own childhood and the culture in which she was raised. The mother imparts advice and wisdom to her young daughter about growing up and becoming a woman. Although, the advice the mother gives to her daughter could be applicable, some may perceive it to be very generalized and judgemental. In the poem “Girl” Kincaid writes about a mother giving life advice to her daughter throughout the whole poem; a poem of which relates to Kincaid’s life. “The way I became a writer was that my mother wrote my life for me and told it to me”( SUNY PRESS). “Girl” starts off when the mother tells her daughter how to …show more content…
However, that is just one piece of useful advice that the mother gives her daughter in the poem. The mother is passing down the wisdom of women before her and is teaching her daughter was she believes is useful in life.
Which is what every mother wants to teach their daughter or daughters. Some of the key advice the mother tells her daughter is useful, to help her succeed later in life. The first piece of advice the mother gives her daughter is on how to accomplish the chores she has to finish. For example, ironing her dad’s khaki pants and learning how to catch a fish and knowing if the fish is worth keeping. The next very strong piece of advice the mother gives to her daughter is when she says “This is how to make a good medicine to throw away a child before it even becomes a child”(Kincaid, 321). This quote talks about how the daughter reached the age