Jamaica Kincaid In A Small Place

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The store I choose to write my Close-reading on is “ A Small Place” by Jamaica Kincaid. In the beginning of In a Small Place I had some mix feelings about it somewhere good and some bad. As the story starts it her telling use what’s happening and what she seeing for example. She describing her country by telling us how non-locals see the country as beautiful, but the locals who see it as a trashy and a bad corrupt place. I want to know why the author makes this point in the beginning? I can only think that this is to show use to open up are eyes more and look around areas and see what’s going on, because sometimes we tend to block stuff like that out. As I read this I see that the locals really don’t like the tourist and specifically seems

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