Culture of Jamaica

In The short story “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston, a women's empowerment and integrity is put to the test. It is summertime in a small town in Florida where a hard working African American woman Delia is pictured washing clothes to get by for her and her husband. As you may not have already picked up Delia is a washerwoman who does everything she can to provide for herself as well as her husband, and is an all around good person. Despite Delia being a good person,wife, and a strong independant…

Galileo’s Daughter Book Review Dava Sobel, an experienced science writer, has written many books about historical figures of science. She has been a New York Times science reporter and a contributor to many other magazines and publications. She has authored or co-authored multiple prize-winning books. One of her best works is a historical memoir called Galileo’s Daughter. This book is written using the surviving letters from Galileo’s oldest daughter, Suor Maria Celeste, written to Galileo.…

Mothers, grandmothers, and stepmothers play an important role in every child 's life. They show and tell their child what to do. In the short story “Girl,” written by Jamaica Kincaid, a mother is doing just that. She is telling her daughter what to do and how to do it.“Girl” is more complex than a simple list of instructions and how-to’s. In Kincaid’s work, she dives deeply into the perspective of a young woman living in a poor country during the late 1970s as well as the girl’s mother’s…

Jamaica Kincaid, born Elaine Potter Richardson, is a storyteller and writer who focuses on “the perils of postcolonial society, paralleled by an examination of rifts in mother-daughter relationships” (Kincaid 114). In the short story The Girl written by Kincaid, a young girl’s mother who is also the main speaker of the story spews a long narrative of advice to her daughter on how to properly run a household and live righteously. The page and a half story takes on a lecture tone where to portray…

Girl” written by Jamaica Kincaid is essentially a set of instructions given by an adult, who is assumed to be the mother of the girl, who is laying out the rules of womanhood, in Caribbean society, as expected by the daughter’s gender. These instructions set out by the mother are related to topics including household chores, manners, cooking, social conduct, and relationships. The reader may see these instructions as demanding, but these are a mother’s attempt, out of care for the daughter, to…

Kincaid, "Girl" "Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry." This quote from the text shows how many details the mother is giving her daughter in her commands. The storyline revolves around the mother's commands. In the Girl a mother is discipline her daughter by giving her a series of commands to follow, with repetition, guides on how to act in certain situations, and how to become a better woman.…

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 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…

“Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid and “If” by Rudyard Kipling, have many similarities as well as many differences. The similarities and differences that will be compared are the theme, speaker, and the parent’s meaning. “Girl” and “If” will be compared because although they are very similar to each other they have many differences, and although they may seem mostly the same there are many differences between them. The themes in “Girl” and “If” consist of the same concept. Both have the aspect of being…

From the Women’s Rights Movement, to today’s college campuses, women have been expressing their feelings towards the issue of sexism through writing. Sexism has left women feeling weak, unimportant, and worthless. However, writers have managed to use their craft to call out the sexist acts around them and bring awareness to the tough topic. Today, women continue to speak out against sexism, trying to finish the work of those that came before them. 1851, Sojourner Truth delivered a passionate…