The book Annie John follows a young girl as she is forced to mature through the many trials and betrayals she faces. As a young girl Annie lives her life as the shadow of her mother, spending each day trying to imitate her. When Annie’s mother rejects her worship, stating that Annie has to be her own person, her whole world is turned upside down by this betrayal. Almost everything about Annie changes, and continues to depend on her relationship with her mother. Annie’s idea of the world becomes constantly changing, but the only thing that remains steady is her overwhelming wish to escape her life in her home of Antigua, and her mother’s influence.
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When Annie is younger she believes everything about her world is so perfect. She believes that “it was in such a paradise that [she] [lives]”, but after her mother’s betrayal Annie can no longer feels this way (24 Kincaid). Annie rejects the ruling of her mother and no longer wishes to base her days around what is acceptable and will make her mother proud. She refuses to limit herself to the actions that society, and her mother, deem proper, and wishes to live in a world were she controls what actions are deemed acceptable for herself. Annie’s idea of her paradise completely changes from such a child-like fantasy of her life with her mother into one full of rebellion and anarchy, with her paradise with the Red Girl. Her new paradise comes to her as she has a dream where she is living on an island in isolation with her friend, the Red Girl, who she “[rescues] in a small boat” after her ship crashes(71 Kincaid). Annie and the Red Girl …show more content…
When Annie is younger she has a bad experience when she goes out swimming with her mother, and her inability to swim causes problems. When Annie’s mom leaves her on the beach and swims out to a rock and Annie realizes “with all that water between us” she will never be able to reach her mother (44 Kincaid). The sea becomes a barrier that Annie faces, though it is the gateway to her dreams, Annie is unable to cross it. Annie tries to learn how to swim and be able to cross this barrier may time but she cannot, much like her inability to escape her mother’s influence. Although for many years Annie is unable to cross these barriers, when she’s seventeen she learns her way out. Annie is given the opportunity to leave Antigua and go to England to study as a nurse. Annie “[will] board a launch that [will] take [her] out to sea” and finally take her to her paradise (138 Kincaid). She finally after many tries learns how to get around the barrier that stops her from reaching her paradise. She even uses her barriers, whether it was the sea or her mother wishes, to her own advantage and they take her to what she so desperately.
Annie as she matures she learns how to manipulate the things that stop her to into her own gain and that becomes her greatest
Annie’s mother’s betrayal causes Annie to not only change the idea of the world Annie wants to …show more content…
When Annie is younger she believes everything about her world is so perfect. She believes that “it was in such a paradise that [she] [lives]”, but after her mother’s betrayal Annie can no longer feels this way (24 Kincaid). Annie rejects the ruling of her mother and no longer wishes to base her days around what is acceptable and will make her mother proud. She refuses to limit herself to the actions that society, and her mother, deem proper, and wishes to live in a world were she controls what actions are deemed acceptable for herself. Annie’s idea of her paradise completely changes from such a child-like fantasy of her life with her mother into one full of rebellion and anarchy, with her paradise with the Red Girl. Her new paradise comes to her as she has a dream where she is living on an island in isolation with her friend, the Red Girl, who she “[rescues] in a small boat” after her ship crashes(71 Kincaid). Annie and the Red Girl …show more content…
When Annie is younger she has a bad experience when she goes out swimming with her mother, and her inability to swim causes problems. When Annie’s mom leaves her on the beach and swims out to a rock and Annie realizes “with all that water between us” she will never be able to reach her mother (44 Kincaid). The sea becomes a barrier that Annie faces, though it is the gateway to her dreams, Annie is unable to cross it. Annie tries to learn how to swim and be able to cross this barrier may time but she cannot, much like her inability to escape her mother’s influence. Although for many years Annie is unable to cross these barriers, when she’s seventeen she learns her way out. Annie is given the opportunity to leave Antigua and go to England to study as a nurse. Annie “[will] board a launch that [will] take [her] out to sea” and finally take her to her paradise (138 Kincaid). She finally after many tries learns how to get around the barrier that stops her from reaching her paradise. She even uses her barriers, whether it was the sea or her mother wishes, to her own advantage and they take her to what she so desperately.
Annie as she matures she learns how to manipulate the things that stop her to into her own gain and that becomes her greatest