Jamaica Kincaid maintains a very real, blunt, and angry tone throughout the entirety of A Small Place. She begins her nonfiction creation with an extremely captivating allusion to the perspective of a tourist. This initially brings attention to the fact that tourists always have the ability to leave, and this contributes to the false image a tourist gains of the place she is visiting. The reality a tourist experiences is much different from the reality an inhabitant experiences daily. Kincaid implies that this ignorance, whether accidental or intentional, also contributes to this false image. She then proceeds to reveal her enragement towards the slavery and colonialism Antigua experienced, and she draws this tragedy back to how tourists don’t
