Jamaica Kincaid's Girl

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Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson in 1949 in Antigua, in the British West Indies, but changed her name when she started to write because her family did not like her choice of profession. She arrived in New York at the age of seventeen years, taking a working as a nanny for a rich family, and met New Yorker columnist George S. TRow, which finally helped her to publish in the magazine. The New Yorker has published the short story Kincaid's "Girl" in 1978, the first part of its fiction. History has since has appeared in a short story anthology of Kincaid. The story of "Girl", as well as many of the books Kincaid relates the experience of being young and a woman in a poor country. Kincaid complicated relationship with her mother goes to the mother-daughter dynamic in history. She describes her mother as a competent woman who fought against its poor conditions in the end feeling bitterness toward their children, because all their problems …show more content…

It intends to advice to help her and scold her daughter and at the same time. " Slut" Kincaid uses a semicolon to separate warnings and words of wisdom, but often repeats itself, especially in order to prevent her daughter from becoming Along with these reps, "Girl" did not go ahead, in chronological order: no beginning, middle, or the end of the flow. Mother manages is lots of useful and helpful advice to help her daughter to keep her house some day. She says her daughter how to make cares such as household linen, sewing, ironing, cooking, setting the table, sweeping, and cleaning. The mother also said the girl how to do other stuff she needs to know about, including how to make herbal cures and

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