Many authors use literary devices to illustrate a tale they are attempting to tell they employ literary devices so that the readers may relate to the problems and emotions of the characters. Jamaica Kincaid illustrates the complexity of her own circumstance through her own literary devices. Kincaid builds the plot and helps the audience grasp the intricacy of Kincaid's predicament by using literary devices including internal conflicts, details, and locales. Kincaid also used strategies like extreme repetition and imagery to highlight the complexity of the narrator's predicament. Kincaid illustrates the complexity of the narrator's condition by utilizing a literary device like internal struggle. Because she misses her native nation in the Caribbean, the narrator experiences a great deal of internal anguish. For instance, the sentence "But now I, too, felt that I wished to be back where I came from" appears in paragraph 3 of herstory. The narrator has been interacting with so many unfamiliar things …show more content…
The way Mariah's pals refer to Lucy's native country a place they've visited but don't really know as "the islands" illustrates their smug familiarity with it. Because there are many different types of islands in the world, as Lucy points out, Mariah's white, well-off pals must share an idea that their regular trips to the Caribbean for rest and leisure are related. They minimize Lucy's native place by referring to "the islands" in her presence, erasing the presence of an island where poor, colonized people live and turning it into a tourist destination. Though not the actual colonizers of Lucy's origin, Mariah's companions exhibit a colonial mentality by pushing their own experiences on the West Indies rather than appreciating the native traits of the area. The mere mention of "the islands" conveys a great deal about the haughtiness of the affluent and