The short story “Girl”, by Jamaica Kincaid, is about a mother’s relationship with her daughter and the struggles they face when the mother tries constantly to control her child’s life choices. As a parent, she raises her children to know how to keep their house clean and how to effectively perform basic household chores. She tries very hard to give her daughter the best advice possible. Her mother also tells her how to make herbal medicine and to catch marine creatures like fish, crab, and lobster. In Marge Piercy’s poem, “Barbie Doll”, she reminds young adults about their childhood and of the toys they used to play with, like Barbie dolls. Barbie at one point, became so popular that every little girl was dying to have one. Readers will initially
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In the story, it explains to us that her mother is a single parent raising her child in a poor rural environment. The setting plays a huge role in influencing the advice she shares with her daughter and many aspects of their everyday lives. She opens up and gives her daughter advice about how a house should be cleaned and basic chores that need to be done, like making herbal medicine, and catching creatures from the ocean by fishing for them. Some examples of some household chores are setting the table, cleaning, vacuuming, and making dinner. The mother fears that her daughter will become a tramp that won’t recognize the world around her. In reality, her daughter is already becoming disobedient and rebellious because of the way she interrupts her mother every time they have a conversation …show more content…
One talks about how to raise children in different ways so they don’t become influenced to be a tramp in the near future. It also just expresses a way that a mother feels about their children and how they should be raised. It is important to society that women learn how to clean and do other household chores. In “Barbie Doll”, the author talks about how young women have to prove something to men in order for society to accept them. They have to change their image because of pop-culture influences like Barbie dolls. Young girls change their looks, even though they shouldn’t have to, because on the inside they are beautiful, just the way they
In the story, it explains to us that her mother is a single parent raising her child in a poor rural environment. The setting plays a huge role in influencing the advice she shares with her daughter and many aspects of their everyday lives. She opens up and gives her daughter advice about how a house should be cleaned and basic chores that need to be done, like making herbal medicine, and catching creatures from the ocean by fishing for them. Some examples of some household chores are setting the table, cleaning, vacuuming, and making dinner. The mother fears that her daughter will become a tramp that won’t recognize the world around her. In reality, her daughter is already becoming disobedient and rebellious because of the way she interrupts her mother every time they have a conversation …show more content…
One talks about how to raise children in different ways so they don’t become influenced to be a tramp in the near future. It also just expresses a way that a mother feels about their children and how they should be raised. It is important to society that women learn how to clean and do other household chores. In “Barbie Doll”, the author talks about how young women have to prove something to men in order for society to accept them. They have to change their image because of pop-culture influences like Barbie dolls. Young girls change their looks, even though they shouldn’t have to, because on the inside they are beautiful, just the way they