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Antigua By Jamaica Kincaid Summary

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At the beginning of section one, Kincaid starts to describe how beautiful Antigua is “more beautiful than any of the other islands you have seen" (page 1).Through the view of the tourists, Kincaid points out how the tourists look ugly in native people's eyes. In her point of view, tourists are a selfish version of themselves because they just think about their holiday and ignore everything happens around them. For example, Kincaid wrote “You must not wonder what happened when you brushed your teeth” (page 14),the tourists have never known that there are no proper sewage-disposal system in Antigua, so they do not know what happen to the water when they brushed their teeth and they haven't known how many black slaves were died inside the ocean
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