Tuesday 24 April 2012

Discuss the advice the mother gives in "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid that teaches her daughter to behave appropriately.

writes
about her native Antigua. recreates a scene between an adolescent, Caribbean girl and her
mother who is worried about the daughters behavior. The narration is first person point of view
with the mother serving as the narrator.  The narration is provided through a literary device
called stream of consciousness which passes along the random thoughts and feelings of the
narrator.

The story supplies a list of rules that the narrator's daughter
should incorporate in her life. The mother accepts as true that a woman's reputation determines
how she is treated in her surrounding. 

The mother believes that domestic
knowledge will not only save her daughter from a life of promiscuity but will also endow her as
a productive citizen. There is anger in the mothers tone. Her frustration comes from the
daughters inappropriate behavior and the worry that she will or even has done
something...

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