Category: Girl by Jamaica Kincaid

In both the short stories The Story of An Hour and Girl, Chopin and Kincaid focus heavily on the roles that women must play in order to fit societal norms. While the two stories are written in different times, both views the restraints of societal norms on women as a negative occurrence, railroading women into…

The term gender is socially created, and it distinguishes man and women. However, some people think that gender and sex are same terms. But they are not same. There is a difference between them. The term sex means when we divide the males and females based upon their sex organs. On the other hand, the…

Girl, by Jamaica Kincaid, is a short story teeming with literary merit. Jamaica Kincaid, whose original name was Elaine Potter Richardson, was born on May 25th, 1949 in St. John’s, Antigua. Kincaid is a Caribbean-American writer whose works focus on representing familial relationships, as seen in this short story. The short story Girl by Jamaica…

Adulthood is a poisonous word that most people don’t want to hear or experience. Like a venomous snake, the bite is as deadly as it is. When we were young, we wanted to grow faster so we to reach our dreams and experience what adults could experience; but when we grow up and face the…

Composers are often able to convey the difficult experiences of growth and maturation through their exploration of complex parental-filial relationships. Sofie Lagunas The Eye of the Sheep (2014) and Jamaica Kincaids Annie John (1985), are domestic fiction novels of the bildungsroman form, in which both composers successfully capture an authentic narrative voice through their use…

In both the short stories The Story of An Hour and Girl, Chopin and Kincaid focus heavily on the roles that women must play in order to fit societal norms. While the two stories are written in different times, both views the restraints of societal norms on women as a negative occurrence, railroading women into…