Girl By Jamaica Kincaid And Lust By Susan Minot

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The short story girl by Jamaica Kincaid and the short story lust by Susan Minot are both very similar and very different stories. Both stories have themes that are similar to each other because they both talk about a teenager who is about to start adulthood and it talks about how they deal with growing up. Another Theme that the two stories share is how a women should treat men and how women should make others view themselves.
The short story Girl by Jamaica Kincaid was first published in 1978. Jamaica Kincaid is an Antiguan lady who grew up in Antigua during the early 1960, s. Kincaid wrote this story in order to make other understand her life as a child. She didn’t have a dad to raise her when she …show more content…

In the Antiguan culture women are taught to take care of and treat men like kings. At the beginning of the story it was hard to tell what the relationship between the two characters were because there was no names and no description on the characters. The mother in the short story gives her daughter advice about how to live life the right way and about how to take care of the household. For example, the mother told the child “This is how to behave in the presence of men who don’t know you very well, and this way they won't recognize immediately the slut I have warned you against becoming;” (Kincaid 699). The mother uses her words of wisdom in order to impact her life. The word “Slut” expresses how the mother really feels about women in the Antiguan culture. The mother also shows how she is concerned about the way her daughter represents herself. The mother is scared that one day her daughter will become a “slut”. The message that Jamaica Kincaid was trying to make in the story “Girl” was that she wants to give teenage girls advice and she wants to teach them how to act like ladies. Jamaica Kincaid expresses this message by showing how powerful the mother’s voice was and how

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