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
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