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“Girl” By Jamaica Kincaid starts off with the girl listening to her mother who’s advising on life and becoming a woman. From the daughter point of view I can see the mom is very harsh, angry and frustrated with her because she believes her daughter is going down the road towards promiscuity and wants to prevent that. The mom is very wise and knows how to clean and cook as well as knowing social decorum, in which she’s trying to instill that in her daughter at an early age. I think her mother…

Naming is a constant in our lives. Names can apply to people, places, things, physical objects and hypothetical ideas. We use names to identify, but what is the connection between the name and what the name represents? In her essay, “In History,” Jamaica Kincaid discusses the importance of naming and the impact of multiple narratives. The first half of Kincaid’s essay focuses on Columbus’ journey to the “New World.” Kincaid tells of sailors’ stories of far away treasures while discussing…

In the story, “Girl” written by Jamaica Kincaid reflect that of a mother, who by her own past experiences and repression of being a women during her time guides to chasten her daughter to modern ways and current social views. The author from the beginning lets us know how women should behave, dress, and their expected duties; or at least the way she feels the daughter in this story should retain such etiquette. The main theme is that the mother is letting her daughter know how to be a ladylike…

Jamaica Kincaid is a novelist who was born in St. Johns, Antigua, in 1949. Her original name was Elaine Potter Richardson. The reason for her name change was because her family did not like the career path she chose for herself, so she no longer wanted ties with her family. She is known for writing stories that relate to the Caribbean culture. After moving to the United States at 17, she began writing for the New Yorker. One of her first pieces of fiction that she wrote was the short story,…

A Small Place written by Jamaica Kincaid (2000) is recognized by a number of scholars highlighting how the content exposes readers to the past and present culture of the narrator's native country Antigua. Kincaid (2000) addresses the corruption in the Antiguan government, the influence of English colonialism, tourism as a neo-colonial structure, and in short identifies factors that contribute to the lost identity of Antigua. Nonetheless, one should take notice that the author frequently…

“This is how you iron your father’s khaki pants so they don’t have a crease” (Kincaid 120). It is unusual for an author to write in the second-person because the style sounds like an instruction manual. Although, spite of that, Jamaica Kincaid uses this technique to her advantage in her short story, “Girl” to create the effect of a conversation between the narrator and reader in the form of a mother teaching her daughter to become a self-sufficient proper young lady. In “Girl,” the story is…

Overshadowed, objectified, and devalued, in a sundry of circumstances, young girls are often born solely to serve and breed. The prose poem “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid, serves as an accurate depiction of the monotonous day to day life of a girl, as well as a bold wake up call to the ignorant people of society. The brilliant and seemingly neverending stream of so called “words of wisdom” are structured in a series of independent clauses, which is one of the most elusive yet obligatory grammatical…

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…

Despite the fact that it may be short, Girl by Jamaica Kincaid, is fierce and strong. Easily, it is definitely high on the “most book-throwing” stories list. I rank it at number one on the list. The short story touches home base with me and other women as well, I am positive. Which is what makes it so interesting. Throughout the long winded sentence of a story, the narrator lectures and instructs her seemingly young daughter on what to do domestically and in public to not be deemed a “slut.” The…

truths taught by the Savior Himself”. Faust speaks on how in his eyes, parents should try to be less enthralled in their children’s lives in order to be “good”. The preceding proposal is directly correlative to both Amy Tan’s “Rules Of The Game” and Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” in that both mothers in the stories are faced with an issue regarding the raising of their daughters. Nowadays however, the issue of parents becoming too active…