The story of Xmas Jamaica Plain for the author Melanie Thon, holds a very strong and rich languages, and also contains a unique words of choice; by using a different elements of fictions, like symbolism, irony, and imagery, the author presents us too many themes that we could distract from the “Xmas Jamaica Plain” story.
The writer was very diligent in her words of choice, each word in the story carried an additional meaning with it that. For example: The symbolism that the author used to show us what type of streets Jamaica Plain was, “Jamaica Plain home-enough hands as dark as mine, enough faces as brown as Emile’s” (Thon 610). It demonstrates to us that the residents of this neighborhood are mixed colored like the narrator and Emilie; therefore, their presence in the Jamaica Plain’s neighborhood would not be that suspicious.
In addition, “not like Brookline, …., where the sound of bursting glass wouldn’t be that loud” (Thon 610), shows us that social economical status of the Jamaica Plain street residents. Obviously, Brookline appears like a residency, of a rich, white, and upper class people, with high security system. Where Jamaica Plain neighborhood’s residents are seeming to be more like middle class people with a weak security system, that can be easily broken down.
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If Emilee’s parent would’ve expect him as what he really felt, he would not have killed him self. If the narrator would at least have an idea of whom her father was, she might never become criminal. Additionally, I felt the writer was trying to show us, how the narrator’s skin color reflects her social class, maybe if she had a skin color that matches the home owner that she sneaked into, she wouldn’t be a dirty street girl with a black lip and shaved head, she wouldn’t also be found as an unidentified dead girl (Thon
The writer was very diligent in her words of choice, each word in the story carried an additional meaning with it that. For example: The symbolism that the author used to show us what type of streets Jamaica Plain was, “Jamaica Plain home-enough hands as dark as mine, enough faces as brown as Emile’s” (Thon 610). It demonstrates to us that the residents of this neighborhood are mixed colored like the narrator and Emilie; therefore, their presence in the Jamaica Plain’s neighborhood would not be that suspicious.
In addition, “not like Brookline, …., where the sound of bursting glass wouldn’t be that loud” (Thon 610), shows us that social economical status of the Jamaica Plain street residents. Obviously, Brookline appears like a residency, of a rich, white, and upper class people, with high security system. Where Jamaica Plain neighborhood’s residents are seeming to be more like middle class people with a weak security system, that can be easily broken down.
The …show more content…
If Emilee’s parent would’ve expect him as what he really felt, he would not have killed him self. If the narrator would at least have an idea of whom her father was, she might never become criminal. Additionally, I felt the writer was trying to show us, how the narrator’s skin color reflects her social class, maybe if she had a skin color that matches the home owner that she sneaked into, she wouldn’t be a dirty street girl with a black lip and shaved head, she wouldn’t also be found as an unidentified dead girl (Thon