The Morning Jamaica Kincaid Analysis

In Jamaica Kincaid’s 1990 novel, her writing created the story of a woman beginning a new phase of her life. The narrator struggles between her sense of self versus the new environment. “I was no longer in a tropical zone and I felt cold inside and out…” (lines 44-45) the narrator shows the obvious signs of fear to the unknown and a sense of homesickness magnifying her struggles to the reader. She was lost and unhappy in her new environment. She appears to be closed off and unwilling to take in new feelings “because I didn’t want to take in anything else” (lines 14-15). Throughout the excerpt Kincaid utilizes repetition of certain words and phrases to further her conflict. “ That morning, the morning of my first day, the morning…” (lines 16-17). By repeating the word morning Kincaid stresses the stereotype of a “sunny morning” which typically represents a fresh start or new outlook. However, this stereotype is broken in this excerpt as it pertains to the conflict. This is posing a new environment with the anxiety of the unknown.It was not the sun she was accustomed to but rather a “pale-yellow sun” that she grasped onto desperately attempting to find any similarity between her new home and her prior. Kincaid later uses repetition of the phrase “ I was no longer in a tropical zone” (line 36) showing another …show more content…
The weather of her new environment is drastically different than her last and she elaborates on this through her repeated phrases.To also assist the conflict, she uses