Jamaica Kincaid's Girl

Jamaica's Kincaid poem, "Girl" a feminist perspective on how women are looked at in the world. Women the most powerful thing in the world today has been through many challenges and movements to get the respect they deserve. Women are a big aspect of the world because, they are what bring people to this world by having children and making the world grow day by day. Most people feel as though women cannot do things that men can do but what they don’t know is that a women can do anything she puts her mind to. This poem shows how a young women is being taught by her mother on how to become a perfect housewife. When people think of women they usually think of a mother, role model, stay at home mother, not working, not independent. Women today have …show more content…
At times Kincaid's mother tends to put the daughter down but explains what she should to be better because, she is scared that her daughter will gain a different lifestyle and not be the proper housewife she was to her husband, and her mom wants her to be able to keep a house hold like she did when she was raising Kincaid and her family when she was younger. A mothers wish is for her daughter to be perfect in every kind of way , and not being a slut by messing around with different men. Mothers always want the best for their children especially, their daughter because, the way they teach them reflects themselves and shows how the girl will be when she becomes older to present herself to the world. In the poem Jamaica's mom tried to demonstrates how a young woman acts in front of a man "this is how to behave in the presence of men who don't know you very well, and this way they won't recognize immediately the slut I have warned you against becoming". Being in someone presences symbolizes being around someone and being in the same state of someone else that is near. Jamaica is showing a symbolism of someone being a good person instead of being inappropriate and she's explaining how it is important to be good and not show themselves in a bad way. When women put themselves out there to men tend to look at them like they are a slut and not something they should take home to their mother and build a family with. Someone's first impression towards another person is everything. Jamaica's mom and how she acts with her daughter symbolizes how parents are very overprotected of their child because, no one ever wants to see their child suffer and this is what this mother is showing in the poem "Girl". Carol says ""The text is essentially a set of instructions offered by an adult (assumed to be a mother), laying out the script for the