In the story, the mother tells the girl everything as a list of things she has to do to get accepted by society as a successful and complete woman. However, we live in a society were woman can assume any role and doesn't have restrictions on things that they have to do or don't want to do. This also shows that the mother is kind of worried about her daughter (as every parent) and her future because she knows that she isn't going to be all her life with her. Because of this, she reminds her daughter the things that were taught to her when she was a kid for her to be an stereotypical woman. The problem with this is that time changes, and with it, society changes. Another problem presented in the story is the life of expectations that our parents want us to live. This is how parents tell us to live and we think that when do it, they will be satisfied but sometimes it doesn't. There are moments where you just got to live happy for them to be happy or that even when you complete all their expectations, they'll still be unsatisfied telling you to fix this or that.
"Girl" made me use a lot of critical thinking when I analyzed it because what it shows explicitly is just a mother telling her daughter how to do things right. But if we put our shoes on the characters feet , and think about why both are having that dialogue, we can found more symbolic things or controversial things to talk about. Also, the time and place where are written the stories can influence an analysis because then, we have to consider the cultural aspects of the environment where it develops the story.
Work Cited
Kincaid, Jamaica. "Girl". story. Literature for Composition. 11th edition. Chapter 5. page 122. January 2018.
I really like the pictures you used.
ReplyDeleteI also think we can find more controversial topics in history.
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