“Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid and “If” by Rudyard Kipling both have a similar topic of a parent giving advice to their child. They have many similarities and differences. Girl is about a mom talking to her daughter, it is one long sentence, and the mom is helping her daughter. If is about a dad talking to his son, it is in stanzas, and the dad is helping his son. Both poems have a lot of differences. In Girl the text states,”This is how to sew a dress when you see the hem coming down…” In If the text states in line 32,”You’ll become a man, my son!” This evidence shows that it is a difference because in Girl a mom is talking to her daughter, in contrast, If is a dad talking to his son. This shows that there are a lot of differences between two
