Thursday, February 22, 2007

Reflection#5 the Classic Daughter –Mother Relationship

This short story “girl” by Jamaica Kincaid is a classic story reflecting on mother-daughter relationship in postcolonial society. I find this story incredibly short and incredibly unusual especially for its way of dialect and composer. This short story is a complete sentence it has now division of any type except for the semicolon, the paragraph although a sentence has rather a sense of rhyme and order that seemed although dull but sort of catchy. This story its self reflect on how mother persuades her daughter to act a live as a civilized and proper young woman. The mother emphasizes a critical statement to her daughter in which seem like she is scolding or rather insulting her daughter. In some cases you might think that the mother might just joking around considering the way she would exaggerate the list of how to be a proper woman but I still consider it more of a complaint in yet a sarcastic matter. The truth is that you could hear the girl in some cases defend her self or better said rebottle what her mother is saying and that mean it is not a joke rather a discussion. I think that the girl although innocent might of accidentally lead people to think that she was mostly like her mother said a slut but she was just not aware of her actions. I consider the fact in those times you call slut what now in day you call tease but that is circumstantial.The complete story could have really be based on a argument or just the closeness of too family members its up to you to decide which one it is.

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