Jamaica Kincaid is an African American literature writer that has impacted many people with her works. Most of her writing has a parallel connection with her life growing up as a child and dealing with the difficulties of living in a Caribbean culture. In two of Jamaica Kincaid’s works “Girl” and Annie John, she gives insight on the Caribbean culture that’s bestowed on girls and her difficulties in having a stable relationship with her mother. Jamaica Kincaid’s maiden name when born was Elaine
Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” is a literary work that details the duties of women in the Caribbean. Kincaid uses this story as a way of conveying the view and work of women not in just the Caribbean, but in the world at the time. Being written in 1978, “Girl” gives a retrospective view on patriarchal society at the time. Words such as “benna”, “okra”, and “dasheen” are associated with a tropical Caribbean area, which makes sense since Kincaid was born and raised in Antigua. Kincaid chronicles what is
In Ernest Hemingway’s “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” and “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid provides readers the brief look into the lives of two people from different worlds that contain identical characteristics. The two fictional stories contain an individual struggling to figure out who they are becoming, and what their lives mean depending on the circumstances the individual is facing. Ernest Hemingway and Jamaica Kincaid use themes, language, imagery, and symbols to allow readers to view the similar
“Girl”, written by Jamaica Kincaid, is a challenging read because it uses a list or commands in the place of a traditionally structured story: interpretation of the main idea is not easy to pick up on. Essentially, “Girl” is laundry list of instructions that a mother is reading off to her daughter. Referring to “Girl” as a story—the tale is without a plot and a narrator, tools that would normally be used to guide the reader in the direction of its purpose for being. Instead, Kincaid attempts to force
The author of the novel Lucy is a women named Jamaica Kincaid. Her bibliography contents generally autobiographical, but she had also written novels, short fiction and essays. Her literary works is very popular and she had been awarded a large number of times. Her writing explores inter alia the relationship between mother and daughter, colonialism, cultural imperialism, racism and colonial legacy. Despite that her literature has been honoured, it has also been criticized especially for its anger
As we look at the two short stories, we found ourselves contrasting themes. In the, “Birthmark”, guilt and perfection were two of the themes being shown. “Has it never occurred to you that the mark upon your check might be removed” (Hawthorne Pg 341). The guilt of Aylmer shows that he is ashamed of having a wife who some sort of defect and plans on doing everything he can. In short, we can also discover that going for perfection can sometimes leave you in dire situations as many people can proclaimed
Jamaica Kincaid A teacher in Vermont, a featured writer, Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson in Antigua and Barbosa where she spent her youth before coming to the United States. She was the oldest of the four children her mother had. Unfortunately, she was discriminated in her family and her other three brothers were given preference over her. She was sent by her mother to the US to earn for the family. But her rough childhood had paved a different path for her. She chose to defy her
everyone in the town follows the same old tradition because Emily is a big influence in the town. The story “Girl’ by Jamaica Kincaid is about a mother trying to teach her daughter how to be a fine young woman, giving her lessons on how to do everyday things such as cleaning, cooking also on how to walk and talk to people respectfully. Both these stories are different in many ways the tone, theme and Irony are very different in both stories.
Annie John’s white piano teacher was a shrivelled up old spinster from Lancashire, England who loathed her native student’s manners and looked down upon them as barbaric offspring of an intellectually inferior race. Racial prejudice seemed to be one of the reasons behind this assumption of superiority. When she was twelve Annie shifted to a new school on account of her good credentials. There was the challenge of assimilation and adapting to the new environment. The classmates, the school routine
Edan Mor 9th Grade Debby Arzt-Mor_______________ Boaz Mor________________ Annie John Jamaica Kincaid, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1985 New York SUBJECT: Annie John is about Annie, a girl, growing up in Antigua. THEME: I have learned what kind of person Annie John is, and how much she changes when growing up from age ten to age seventeen. CHARACTERS: Annie: Annie John is the main character in Annie John. Annie secretly likes to play marbles, she likes to read, and when she was little, she loved to