Jamaica Kincaid's Girl Essay

Not exactly as Aunt Ida, Gayathri's daughter inspired her to overcome her depression. In a video trailer for her book she says, “The first time I was confined in the seclusion room, I was shattered. I had absolutely no hope to live, except my little girl and the unborn child. I

After being in Composition two, I have learned how to become a better reader. For instance, I have learned two different ways of reading. Surface reading, which is making inferences as you read. For example, While reading, the short story, “The Birthday Party” as a reader, I inferred that the husband was disrespectful to his wife because of the way he created a scene at the restaurant. After understanding the close reading through textual evidence, I understood as a reader the wife is possibly a

1. One element that I have learned from the Greek Drama Oedipus the King is the concept of predestination. Throughout the play, this idea that a person’s destiny is already predetermined for them was clearly emphasized. Even when Oedipus tried to run away from his destiny, by the end of the play he fulfilled the foretold prophecy. This way of thinking made me draw a conclusion about how the culture of the Greeks were. Based off the play, I drew the conclusion that the Greeks highly revered their

cleaning, cooking, or sewing was considered a woman’s job. When tools or machinery are involved the whole dynamic is changed into a man’s job. There were so many expectations as to how women should act or what jobs they should have. In Jamaica Kincaid’s short story “Girl,” readers are bombarded with a list of demands that are meant for a young woman. “Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; cook pumpkin fritters in very hot sweet oil; this is how to sew on a button; this is how

convinced of both; he recognizes that his misery is his own fault for rejecting God, but he knows that God is still in control of him and of his miseries even though he has brought them on himself. Essay begins below.            In Jamaica Kincaid's novel Lucy, the narrator remembers, as a teenager, discovering