Good morning class! We are going to try to report here next week. Please do your writings on "Girl" in old-fashioned pen and paper and then next week we will try the blog. I will also spend a snowy Saturday this weekend putting things up here for you to think about while you are writing.
If you have any thoughts about "Girl," please jot them down here -- no pressure -- and let's talk about them this week.
Your instructor,
RD
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ReplyDeleteAfter further reviewing the short story, "Girl," by Jamaica Kincaid, i have given thought to what i believe the future of the child will be. Although i believe this was written in the context of an older state of the world, or america, i will try my best to compare it to myself. As a younger child, i did almost everything my parents wanted of me. I didn't go much out of my way to disobey my parents. I did my homework and did my chores, and my parents were happy with me. In "girl," the mother continuously demands many things her daughter should do or be. For now i believe the girl merely does not know better than to have another opinion of her mother. So although the girl and i were very accepting of everything our parents had to say to us, there are a few things that caused me to stray away from my parents as i got older.
ReplyDeleteTo address the question given to us in class of what girl will become, my answer is this. She will become a self possessed young lady. I believe this because once i became a teenager a lot of things changed for me. I was able to look back on how my parents had raised me and say i liked this, and didn't like this about how i was raised. Once i became older enough to reflect on my life i became aware of how i wanted to live my life. If the girl doesn't like the way she is being treated, and she thinks there are better ways to be treated, she can break off and become whatever she wants to be.
Matt B- Section 11
Nicely put and well-written, Matt.
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I enjoyed Kincaid's short story merely because I can relate. Kincaid's behavior towards her mother being resistant, I too have reacted in a simular manner. Not to say that I am proud of my actions but it is thw way things happened because I saw things differently as Kincaid did. Initially I chuckled to myself because it is like reading about my past and present life from someone elses eyes, as if I were a lab rat being observed. More interesting, were the comments from my classmates on how they viewed Kincaid as a person implied through her writing. My classmates' views told a story about each person, that they were or still are sheltered ( I mean this in an amicable manner). I was the only person who empathized with Kincaid, reason being as mentioned before, Kincaid and i had simular experiences. There is a saying: "who feels it, knows it".
ReplyDeleteI was puzzled for a moment as to why this is so, then it hit me as i looked around the room. The reason i'm mentioning this, is because at the present time as i reflect on my classmates opinions and my reaction, i now realized I have been enslaved by my own cognition or maybe because of my surrounding, I had an obligation to justify why thier views had no merrit based on lack of understanding her experiences and thought process. MP