Xuela’s Silent Anger
The Autobiography of My Mother chapter 1 to 3 is about the Xuela (narrator), who recounts her own life’s story growing up on the island of Dominica in silent anger. In the text read, she vents about her life and how she feels about it. She uses her life story to highlight how whites ruled over the blacks and took advantage of a vulnerable people. In this piece of writing it will be shown that Xuela’s anger spread throughout the chapters 1to 3 due to (1) the death and longing for her mother, (2) the effects of loss as she grew up (3) the issue of her father abandoning.
The book started off with the Xuela stating that her mother died. “My mother died at the moment I was born, and so for my whole life there was nothing standing …show more content…
The loss of her mother so early in life affected her relationship with people as she grew older. Her loss caused her to separate herself from people around her. She never had a close relation with Ma Eunice who took care of her until her dad took her to live with him. From the moment she met with her stepmother, Xuela realized her dislike of her, when she said “she had the face of evil” (Kincaid 28). Her own brother and sister she never formed bond with. To solidify this point Kincaid writes, “I do not want to belong to anyone, that since the one person I would have consented to own me had never lived to do so, I did not want to belong to anyone; I did not want anyone to belong to me” (Kincaid 104). Xuela’s tone in this quote is one of anger where she makes it clear that the only person she would have wanted to connect with was her …show more content…
First, when her mom died and he left her in the care of his Laundress who “was not related to him or Xuela’s mother in anyway” (Kincaid 4). “My father took me and placed me in the care of some woman he paid to wash his clothes” (Kincaid 4). Xuela felt abandonment at the tender age of four when she realized that her father just came to collect his laundry and then disappear down path until next forthright. This was how it was until he got married and no longer required Ma Eunice’s laundry service. After a short period of living with Alfred, Xuela was sent to live with stranger number two and his wife. “in my fifteenth year my father took me to the house of a man he knew, Monsieur La Batte…”(Kincaid
The Autobiography of My Mother chapter 1 to 3 is about the Xuela (narrator), who recounts her own life’s story growing up on the island of Dominica in silent anger. In the text read, she vents about her life and how she feels about it. She uses her life story to highlight how whites ruled over the blacks and took advantage of a vulnerable people. In this piece of writing it will be shown that Xuela’s anger spread throughout the chapters 1to 3 due to (1) the death and longing for her mother, (2) the effects of loss as she grew up (3) the issue of her father abandoning.
The book started off with the Xuela stating that her mother died. “My mother died at the moment I was born, and so for my whole life there was nothing standing …show more content…
The loss of her mother so early in life affected her relationship with people as she grew older. Her loss caused her to separate herself from people around her. She never had a close relation with Ma Eunice who took care of her until her dad took her to live with him. From the moment she met with her stepmother, Xuela realized her dislike of her, when she said “she had the face of evil” (Kincaid 28). Her own brother and sister she never formed bond with. To solidify this point Kincaid writes, “I do not want to belong to anyone, that since the one person I would have consented to own me had never lived to do so, I did not want to belong to anyone; I did not want anyone to belong to me” (Kincaid 104). Xuela’s tone in this quote is one of anger where she makes it clear that the only person she would have wanted to connect with was her …show more content…
First, when her mom died and he left her in the care of his Laundress who “was not related to him or Xuela’s mother in anyway” (Kincaid 4). “My father took me and placed me in the care of some woman he paid to wash his clothes” (Kincaid 4). Xuela felt abandonment at the tender age of four when she realized that her father just came to collect his laundry and then disappear down path until next forthright. This was how it was until he got married and no longer required Ma Eunice’s laundry service. After a short period of living with Alfred, Xuela was sent to live with stranger number two and his wife. “in my fifteenth year my father took me to the house of a man he knew, Monsieur La Batte…”(Kincaid