The Autobiography Of My Mother By Jamaica Kincaid

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The Autobiography of My Mother story by Jamaica Kincaid. It is a story of young girl life. The story of this is really deep. It talks about what happened to the young girl who grows up in a loveless household. The young girl mother was dead after her birth. For the first time her dad made her to go to school. It was her dad wish that she become educational. She attended a school where everyone is boys and she is the only girl. Everyone looked at her with hatred even the teacher was a coward who said she was evil and possessed. But she wasn’t afraid of anything because compare to her mother dead it wasn’t anything to be afraid. She kept on learning and was a fast learner. The first words that she learned was “The British Empire.” In connection,

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