The Analysis of Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” In this analysis, there will be several aspects discussed. There are characterizations, feminism, plot, cultural analysis, and tone. First, the explanation will be about the characterizations.
The mother can be categorized as dominant because she controls everything in the story.
First thing to be analyzed is the style of the story itself. The mother takes almost 100% part of the story by telling her daughter so many things. She doesn’t even give the girl a chance to defend herself (although the girl does). Therefore, the mother is powerful.
We can see that the writer describes the mother as the only person that know everything so she can save her daughter’s life and make her respectable. She gives …show more content…
Feminism is a political label for a women’s movement in late 1960 (Belsey and Moore). One of a feminist literary work is “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid. The story tells about the mother tells her daughter how a good girl should behave. Here we will focuses on some aspect of the story that are seen from feminism literary. The feminism aspect are shown from the story are stereotype women in society and how to be a good women without depending on men. The other aspect of feminism in this story tells about that are instructed by mother to her daughter about relationship, manner, behavior, household and social. In this story in used a second point of you, it can be seen from every lines in the story is using “You”, “You” here refers to her daughter. In the beginning of this story the feminism aspect is inequality. Although in the story does not describe the man, it can be seen from there are so many contrast between woman and man. In this story a woman described as “domestic creature” it means that a woman does the domestic activity such as washing, cooking, sewing, etc. it can be seen in lines, “wash the white clothes on Monday… wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them…”, “be sure to wash every day, even if it is with your own spit;”, “cook pumpkin fritters in very hot sweet oil;”, “soak your little cloths right after you take them off;”, and “soak salt fish overnight before you cook it;”. In this case the women …show more content…
It is described on, how you smile to someone you don't like too much, to someone you don’t like at all, and also to someone you like completely. In these lines that the girl should act properly in front of someone she likes or she doesn’t like. Then, how you sweep a corner, a whole house, and a yard; how you set a table for tea, for dinner, for dinner with an important guest, for lunch, and for breakfast. In these lines explained that a girl should be able to do all those things. The other example is “how to behave in front of the men don’t know you very well, and this way they won't recognize immediately the slut I have warned you against becoming and how to make a bread pudding, doukona, pepper pot, a good medicine for a cold, and a good medicine to throw away a child before it even becomes a child”. These line explains the girl should do in life and how a good girl should behave, it means being a girl is complicated because the nature rules and the roles as a
The mother can be categorized as dominant because she controls everything in the story.
First thing to be analyzed is the style of the story itself. The mother takes almost 100% part of the story by telling her daughter so many things. She doesn’t even give the girl a chance to defend herself (although the girl does). Therefore, the mother is powerful.
We can see that the writer describes the mother as the only person that know everything so she can save her daughter’s life and make her respectable. She gives …show more content…
Feminism is a political label for a women’s movement in late 1960 (Belsey and Moore). One of a feminist literary work is “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid. The story tells about the mother tells her daughter how a good girl should behave. Here we will focuses on some aspect of the story that are seen from feminism literary. The feminism aspect are shown from the story are stereotype women in society and how to be a good women without depending on men. The other aspect of feminism in this story tells about that are instructed by mother to her daughter about relationship, manner, behavior, household and social. In this story in used a second point of you, it can be seen from every lines in the story is using “You”, “You” here refers to her daughter. In the beginning of this story the feminism aspect is inequality. Although in the story does not describe the man, it can be seen from there are so many contrast between woman and man. In this story a woman described as “domestic creature” it means that a woman does the domestic activity such as washing, cooking, sewing, etc. it can be seen in lines, “wash the white clothes on Monday… wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them…”, “be sure to wash every day, even if it is with your own spit;”, “cook pumpkin fritters in very hot sweet oil;”, “soak your little cloths right after you take them off;”, and “soak salt fish overnight before you cook it;”. In this case the women …show more content…
It is described on, how you smile to someone you don't like too much, to someone you don’t like at all, and also to someone you like completely. In these lines that the girl should act properly in front of someone she likes or she doesn’t like. Then, how you sweep a corner, a whole house, and a yard; how you set a table for tea, for dinner, for dinner with an important guest, for lunch, and for breakfast. In these lines explained that a girl should be able to do all those things. The other example is “how to behave in front of the men don’t know you very well, and this way they won't recognize immediately the slut I have warned you against becoming and how to make a bread pudding, doukona, pepper pot, a good medicine for a cold, and a good medicine to throw away a child before it even becomes a child”. These line explains the girl should do in life and how a good girl should behave, it means being a girl is complicated because the nature rules and the roles as a