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Girl By Jamaica Kincaid

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Tanvir Zzaman Writ-106 Professor Khan 02/19/2023 Draft 2 Like many poems, interpretations can be different for people when they read it, whether about the structure or the inference of what happens at the end and what can we as readers infer will happen which is entirely normal. So many fabulous poets have made their poems like that for readers to enjoy and to keep them thinking. In this essay, I will be analyzing the poem “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid. The “Girl” poem is about our narrator herself and tells us about how her mother is giving her some rules to follow as a woman I will be using the critical journal by Ahmad and Almahameed whose thesis is about the poem to show how wonderfully the poem has been structured with the use of the poetic …show more content…

As we know the story has a lot of commands that are being delivered from the mother to her daughter who is our narrator as we see it in the starting part where the mother says “Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; Wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry;”(Kincaid 320). As for the Critic’s text, that goes further in as my self it feels as if this point that critics show is very solid. I could not agree more about the part where the critics point out how the mother uses the negative command “Don’t” many times throughout the poem. Like Wise, when reading by myself, I have seen the word used around fourteen times in the “Girl” poem by Kincaid. It is like the daughter is getting programmed by her mother and she must follow those getting programmed by her mother and follow those …show more content…

The mother’s admonition about the dangers of becoming the slut constitutes the girl’s movement, external looking, behavior, and action. This repetition underlines the mother’s fears of her daughter at the peril of becoming the “slut” woman.”((Ahmad, Almahameed 160). While reading you can see that line one of them is the part where the mother says “this is how to behave in the presence of men who don’t know you very well, and this way they won’t recognize immediately the slut I have warned you against becoming;”(Kincaid 321). It is as if the mother is pointing out to her daughter that if she doesn't follow her commands then the daughter will go on the path of becoming a

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