Literary Themes In Boys And Girls By Bicka Kinkaid

One of the best thing about me is that I really enjoyed reading short stories. Every story that I read in this book feels more like poetry than an actual story. However, I enjoyed reading most of them because they feed my mind. Reading the story “Boys by Ricky Moody” and “Girls by Jamaica Kinkaid” really caught my attention, they are very short, but great pieces to cut right within to the heart of the primer. Nevertheless, what makes them similar is how they were created using similar literary techniques such as iconism, the stream of conscience and ambiguity. Both stories are very different in many ways from cultural, racial, and sexual boundaries. Rick Moody’s short story “Boys” is an innovative work that was motivated by “a writer named Max Steel, who applied the phrase ‘Then the boys entered the house’ at reading” (Meyer 297). “Boy 's entered the room” …show more content…
One in which she warns against “throwing stones at black birds” (Kincaid 327). And another “throw back a fish that you don’t want, so that nothing bad will fall on you” (Kincaid 327). These statements reinforce the cultural element of the story and develop the mother and daughter as immigrants from tribal communities. By not looking into the mind of either the daughter or the mother, the author requires the reader to fill in the blanks and make many assumptions about the characters. We assume right away that the narrator is the mother, and the girl is the daughter. Similarly, I think the two characters in the story are black based on cultural expressions like” don’t sing Benna at all and never in Sunday school” (Kincaid 326). Additionally, we assume that they are poor because the laundry is “put up on the stone heap” and “put on the clothes to dry” (Kincaid 326). In the story “Boys”, the reader is led to assume by the reference to everyday life in suburbia that the characters in “Boys” are middle-class white people in