Girl

Injustice Have you ever thought how many girls are being victims of violent or sexual abuse right now? How many human rights are being broken around the world? Is someone doing something to stop injustice? The movie Girls Rising presents the misfortune of several girls around the world; its purpose is to make audience aware about some injustices. Every story is special, and it makes its audience reflect. One of the most shocking stories is about Amina an 11 year old girl from Afghanistan who…

Guerrilla girls The contemporary poster “Do Women Have to be Naked to Get into the MET Mueseum,” (1989) was made by the Guerilla girls in response to the conscious and unconscious discrimination in the art world at the time. The Guerrilla Girls are intersectional feminist activist artists who since their inception have underminde the idea of a mainstream narrative by revealing the understory and subtext in order to expose bad behaviour in the art world. Working collaboratively as a group to…

She stated that, “... the companies trick little girls into buying the pink stuff instead of stuff that boys want to buy, right?” How does this little girl understand stereotyping of genders better than the rest of the world? Riley is completely right about children wanting to have princesses and superheroes. Some male children want to wear dresses and be princesses like girls get to. For example, a mother of a young boy wrote to The Natural Child Project bloggers…

In "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid, we have a mother conveying important life advice to her daughter in order for her to adapt to her cultural customs and most importantly, to learn the rules of social behavior for a woman. Her mother's advice is not only intentionally told in order for her to become the proper Antiguan woman she believes in raising but is also told to criticize her actions and everyday doings. Her mother makes it very clear, in order to live a proper Antiguan life, there are many…

clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry.”( pg 56) This quote came from Jamaica Kincaid short story “Girl”. If a parent of this present day, told their children to do that, the child would probably just stand there and question them why. Well the girl in this story could not even get one word out to question the mother let alone only two sentences throughout the whole story. In the eyes of most islanders this is a…

“Girl” is a poem written by Jamaica Kincaid which was published in 1978 in The New Yorker. It was her first piece of published work. She is from Antigua, and most of her work contains stories of Antiguan life. As an African women, Kincaid always explores in her writing about class, race and gender discrimination. “Girl” is not exceptional from her other writing. Here she creates the image of Western Caribbean domestic lifestyle. The theme of this story is mother and daughter argument. In this…

Teen girls put each other down all the time. They make fun of the way other girl's dress, the way they wear their hair, and they call each other bad names. Teen girls can make another girl feel so ashamed of themselves. They say mean things to each other and words hurt. Some teenage girls don't know how to stand up for themselves and the last thing they want to do is tell because that can cause more problems. Teen girls crack jokes and humiliate girls in front of everyone. Teen girls bully in…

pretty dress dirty." Growing up, little girls will hear many interpretations of this phrase with one important meaning; this isn't meant for girls, it's a boy thing. Our words and actions have a great impact on everything around us and intentional or not, we are gender stereotyping our children. Subconsciously you are stopping young girls from taking part in the activities that they enjoy, from their early childhood our social cues are slowly nudging girls away from their interest in subjects…

Jamaica Kincaid’s story “Girl” tells of a conversation between a mother and her young daughter. The mother tells her of the proper ways to perform simple tasks such as “cook pumpkin fritters in vert hot sweet oil” (page 1725). However, the mother also tells her things such as “try to walk like a lady and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming” (page 1725). At first the reader is struck by the carelessness the mother presents this information to her daughter and the underlying tone of…

In the short story "Girl", by Jamaica Kincaid the main character is a mother, speaking to her daughter. The tone, mood, and tempo of the story suggests that the mother isn't having a nurturing conversation with her daughter, but nagging her instead. Throughout the story there is no plot and no point is made. While the mother is speaking, the daughter only responds twice. The first time she says "but I don't sing benna on Sundays at all and never in Sunday school", her mother disregards her…