In Jamaica Kincaid's introductory paragraph she explores what her reality would be like as a tourist in her home country. As she describes this to the reader (who is the audience) she shows how terrible the tourist can be to the island and how different and unwanted the tourist often is. In this piece, the author expresses a critical tone towards tourists through the use of imagery, parallel sentence structure, and the connotation of her words. In the opening paragraph of this essay, the author describes a tourist visiting a new place and describing what this tourist is seeing as they visit this place. One usage of imagery would be the authors description of the ocean."...the colour of the water is navy blue; nearer, the water is the colour
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On that topic, there are words with both positive and negative connotation, as some words are used to describe good things within writing. For instance, at the beginning of the essay, the author uses words like "beauty" and "godlike". These words are used in the representation of the idyllic visit a tourist may think they are experiencing as they just arrive in their hotel. However, in this excerpt there are around twice as many words with negative connotation about the "ugly human being" a tourist is known to be. The author does a great job of expressing herself through the word choice in the excerpt and most of those words have a negative connotation. For instance, the repetition of the word "ugly" in reference tourists is interesting because it is unlikely it is meant in a physical sense, but more as a character descriptor. For instance the author says "...you are not an ugly person ordinarily; you are not an ugly person day to day. From day to day, you are a nice person." In this the author expresses that the way you act is unappealing and bad in the eyes of the locals because it is different and crude. The way one would act in their own environment would be considered nice and normal, but in this different reality it is seen as "ugly". The author later uses this word choice to advance the point that natives are critical towards tourists and rightfully so using the parenthetical quotes " (you do not look the way they look)" as well as "(it is their custom to eat their food with their hands; you try eating that way you look silly; you try eating the way you always eat, you look silly)" . Both of these quotes express how the tourist differs from the native and how it can be seen that the native (which the author is) does not find it to be a good
On that topic, there are words with both positive and negative connotation, as some words are used to describe good things within writing. For instance, at the beginning of the essay, the author uses words like "beauty" and "godlike". These words are used in the representation of the idyllic visit a tourist may think they are experiencing as they just arrive in their hotel. However, in this excerpt there are around twice as many words with negative connotation about the "ugly human being" a tourist is known to be. The author does a great job of expressing herself through the word choice in the excerpt and most of those words have a negative connotation. For instance, the repetition of the word "ugly" in reference tourists is interesting because it is unlikely it is meant in a physical sense, but more as a character descriptor. For instance the author says "...you are not an ugly person ordinarily; you are not an ugly person day to day. From day to day, you are a nice person." In this the author expresses that the way you act is unappealing and bad in the eyes of the locals because it is different and crude. The way one would act in their own environment would be considered nice and normal, but in this different reality it is seen as "ugly". The author later uses this word choice to advance the point that natives are critical towards tourists and rightfully so using the parenthetical quotes " (you do not look the way they look)" as well as "(it is their custom to eat their food with their hands; you try eating that way you look silly; you try eating the way you always eat, you look silly)" . Both of these quotes express how the tourist differs from the native and how it can be seen that the native (which the author is) does not find it to be a good