Short Story Girl By Jamaica Kincaid - 917 Words

A Short Story That Is Not So Short After All Jamaica Kincaid wrote a short story called â€Å"Girl† that had many influential meanings to it. She spoke with honesty and with a format that was eye opening and different from others. She made the girl come to life by allowing the mind to fill in the blanks for anything she left out. Kincaid also wrote in a way that made each time reading it, a new thing to infer or attach to as a reader. She allowed so much emotion to take place and grasped the reader’s attention by every sentence she wrote in such an organized matter. There were certain aspects of this short story that she used to make â€Å"Girl† come together such as, imagery, setting, and point of view. With every sentence that Kincaid wrote she created an image in the reader’s mind, she also kept constructing the character by starting with simple sentences like â€Å"Wash the white clothes on Monday† (Kincaid 1) and wrapping it up by saying, â€Å"After all you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker won’t let near the bread?† (Kincaid 42-43). By the last sentence the reader has their own appearance of who girl is and what her life is like as a grown woman, that has been given all of this advice. Kincaid wrote with a method that allowed the reader to imagine the parts that they wanted too, such as ethnicity, age, time period or in more detail, who is telling her this advice and what are their intentions? This short story was humble and complex at the same time. Her sentenceShow MoreRelatedAnalysis Of The Short Story Girl By Jamaica Kincaid844 Words   |  4 PagesIn the short story â€Å"Girl† by Jamaica Kincaid, a mother gives her daughter strict and organized set of verbal guidelines that teach her how to be a proper woman in that society. These guidelines focus primarily on how to act and behave as a wife. However, these guidelines and rules set out for her daughter’s future have an underlying sense of stigma and judg ement. I believe the way the cultural tradition in the depicted society treats women is very different compared to how men are treated. TheRead MoreEssay on Short Story Analysis of Girl by Jamaica Kincaid873 Words   |  4 PagesShort story analysis of Girl by Jamaica Kincaid Have you ever wished that someone had given you a guide on how live the right way? Jamaica Kincaid does just that in  her short story, Girl. 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In these three stories, the author s convey the message that sexual freedom, for females anyway, is not so free; in fact females often, ultimately pay a price of loneliness, shameRead MoreEssay about Contrast of Jamaica Kincaid’s â€Å"Girl† and John Updike’s â€Å"AP†687 Words   |  3 Pagesof Jamaica Kincaid’s â€Å"Girl† and John Updike’s â€Å"AP† â€Å"AP† and â€Å"Girl† both symbolized the protagonists’ oppression by an older, more experienced generation. However, Kincaid’s â€Å"Girl† was artistic with an undercurrent of selfless love and hope while Updike’s â€Å"AP† was uninspiring with selfishness and lust. The protagonist of â€Å"Girl† discouraged her daughter’s dreams out of love. The protagonist of â€Å"A P† encouraged the antagonists’ out of a selfish desire for self-promotion. The short story â€Å"Girl†Read MoreThe Victimization of Teenage Girls1553 Words   |  7 PagesWhat does it mean to be a girl according to society? How does society see it? 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