Reflection: Girl
This short text forced me to read it many
times because is a very uncommon type of text. This story doesn’t have a clear
outcome in which I can see a beginning, center and final. The story doesn’t
have clear setting, plot or conclusion. Also, I could note the use of some
words in the text that seems so unpopular to my vocabulary, like benna, okra
and doukona. In my investigation of
where these words come from, I founded that the author, Jamaica Kincaid, is
from Antigua and these words comes from there. (Biography)
It was a different idea to
express a critique of this society filled with prejudices and where the values
are gone. I can identify that the story is about basically a mother telling her
daughter how to be the proper woman according to the standards of their
society. In addition, the mother advises her daughter of not convert or become
a slut. It was shocking to me when I read “slut” because when I started reading
I was expecting a formal and fancy text of how to be an exemplary lady. It
seems to me that the daughter doesn’t have reached the adolescence and her
mother is worried about her current behavior that may lead her to be slut or a
bad woman. The mother is trying to teach her all the works and roles that the
women usually take, like laundry, cooking and cleaning.
Also taught her some lessons about men and
relationship. Is clear the critique that does the author of the hard times that
many girls experience in their lives because they are treated with inferiority by
society and the huge amounts of preventions and reservations that they must do
daily. I can understand perfectly how uncomfortable and sad could be this
situation. But some people who want a solution to this problem and equality
between women and men, get to an extremist level. Those who are extremist
defender of the women rights devalue men’s rights. It must be equality, not a
payback. Since men have roles and limits in the society to.
Works Cited
Kincaid, Jamaica. Class Assignment. Reflection about "Girl" UPRRP January 2018.
Fully agree with you, equality. Their should always be a balance, extremes are not good from my perspective.
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