Lisa you bring a very interesting point about the mother in the short story “Girl”by Jamaica Kincaids. Most children don’t really appreciate their parent’s causing the relationship between them to usually be very negative. I agree how the relationship changed between The mother and the girl, how it is cause by the mother forcing upon ridiculous standards on the child and the child wanting to do her own thing. I really enjoyed you bringing up the relationship with your mother because it’s similarity to my own relationship with my mother. My mother and I don’t see eye to eye do to me being grown up middle class in america and her growing up poor in the dominican republic. She wants me to focus all my effort at school, despite me wanting to enjoy
