Jamaica Kincaid's Girl Response Writing

Response Writing
Student’s Name
Institution
Course
RESPONSE WRITING
Girl,” by Jamaica Kinkaid, is Jamaica Kincaid's short story that relates a series of commands, obligatory tasks, and fears, directed at the title girl by presumably some older female relative. There is a consistent use of the second person point of view, where she addresses her audience as "you.” Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl," is unusual for its form a monologue conversation. A primary theme of Espaillat's poem "Bilingual” is straddling two cultures creates conflicts. “Girl” is a short story written as one long sentence, a series of rules given from an authority figure most likely a mother to a girl at a transitional age. The poem is prose because of the word choice and its structure (Gale, n.d.). The rhythm of the poem makes it sound like a song or a chant because it comes with constant repetition. The author also uses simple imperative verbs and words like “always, to be sure.”
In the “A Story about the Body,” by Robert Hass the pat...