Bank of Antigua

On Feb. 29, a 61-year-old man was arrested for allegedly embezzling over $100,000 from a California company. The incident took place in Lake County. According to media accounts, the defendant was working as a bookkeeper for a local couple, and an investigation by the Lake County Sheriff's Department determined that he stole $103,000 from their business and personal bank accounts. The evidence was sent to the Lake County District Attorney's Office in September, and a criminal case was opened on Feb. 7. On Feb. 8, a judge issued a warrant for the defendant's arrest. However, he was already serving a jail sentence in Sacramento County for stealing the identities of his adult daughter and son. That sentence was complete, so he was transferred…

lashing at the tourists that come from Europe and North America for their stay in Antigua. In the book she implies how the tourists are blinded by Antigua’s beauty and paradise that they don’t realize the flaws that lie beneath it all. Kincaid reveals her bitterness towards them and how she believes in that many of these tourists take their lives and the privilege to release their stress in Antigua. Her anger also resembles a bit of envy of the tourists for their freedom to do as they please in…

Colonialism on the Island of Antigua and Native American Reservations How would you feel if, in an instant, your country was destroyed by foreigners who invaded your land? A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid she writes about her life growing up on an island called Antigua. As she was getting older, she witnessed a lot of racism and colonialism. Similarly, Sherman Alexie’s essay “Indian Education”, Junior Polatkin was mistreated in school because his white instructor was very cruel to him.…

The store I choose to write my Close-reading on is “ A Small Place” by Jamaica Kincaid. In the beginning of In a Small Place I had some mix feelings about it somewhere good and some bad. As the story starts it her telling use what’s happening and what she seeing for example. She describing her country by telling us how non-locals see the country as beautiful, but the locals who see it as a trashy and a bad corrupt place. I want to know why the author makes this point in the beginning? I can only…

In Jamaica Kincaid's introductory paragraph she explores what her reality would be like as a tourist in her home country. As she describes this to the reader (who is the audience) she shows how terrible the tourist can be to the island and how different and unwanted the tourist often is. In this piece, the author expresses a critical tone towards tourists through the use of imagery, parallel sentence structure, and the connotation of her words. In the opening paragraph of this essay, the…

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…

their arguments to the fact that De la Renta should not have to adhere to North Atlantic Universals—Jamaica Kincaid shows that this line is sometimes unclear. As Kincaid writes, “Not long after The Earthquake Antigua got its independence from Britain, making Antigua a state in its own right, and Antiguans mark the day, they go to church and thank God, a British God, for this” (9). The effects of colonialism remain alive and well in Antigua and in the Caribbean as a whole. By taking the time to…

Jamaica Kincaid was originally Elaine Potter Richardson, an islander from Antigua. While living in Antigua, she received a British education and performed at the top of her class. She was the first of four children. Her relationship with her mother tumbled downhill once she began to birth her three sons. At age 16 she left Antigua, became an au pair, and went on to pursue her writing career while in college. Her family rejected her writing. It was then that she changed her name to Jamaica…

to family. Also, Edwidge includes themes such as coming of age, the burden of inheritance, as well as relationship between mother and daughter. Similar to Edwidge Danticat, author Jamaica Kincaid, a known Caribbean author expresses how she felt in many of her stories. Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John’s, Antigua. Jamaica Kincaid used her childhood memories and emotions in many of her writings. Jamaica Kincaid had more experience with a mother than Edwidge Danticat. However, Kincaid used…

influence of others is not living life in joy. In "On Seeing England for the First Time" by Jamaica Kincaid she uses metaphor and repetition in order to convey her oppressed and bitter attitude toward England. Kincaid uses metaphors throughout the passage to show her oppressed attitude towards England. Since Kincaid was a child she has been introduced to the map of England, the European country that took control of their small Caribbean island of Antigua. For her first time looking at England,…