Colonialism In The Story Of Lucy By Lucy Kincaid

Mai’s fear of losing the memories of her family leads her to realize the significance of her life and ultimately the possibility of losing her understanding.

During the weeks Molly spends with Vivian, she learns a lot from Vivian. Most important, she realizes that Vivian also had a difficult childhood but was able to overcome her bad experiences and lead a happy life. Molly’s realization reflects the theme of the book: learning about the experiences

Bigotry and stubbornness are perceptible attitudes of small-town communities in 1960's Western Australia. The notion that the inhabitants of the tight-knit community of Corrigan are racist, prejudiced and ignorant is explicated in Craig Silvey's coming of age novel, Jasper Jones. The bildungsroman is narrated by Charlie Bucktin, an adolescent from the small town of Corrigan. Charlie becomes unexpectedly involved with a local indigenous boy, Jasper, as they set out to discover the truth about the death of a young girl from their community. Throughout this quest, Charlie comes to many realisations about life, ultimately, that society can be very cruel. The prejudism and ignorance of the tight-knit community of Corrigan manifests in the

Ignorance is worn like tattered battle armor—left threadbare by reality and its truths. Ignorance is a battle cry against an ever changing world; a cry declaring that they will not change with it. In The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver clads Rachel Price in this frayed ignorance, once fashioned by the age of colonialism. Rachel wears it proudly, hanging onto every thread of her ignorance until the very end. Through world interactions and inner monologues, Kingsolver establishes how Rachel’s overbearing ignorance dwarfs her evolution as a character in order to illustrate how colonialism and segregation wield a lasting destructive influence over the Western Mind.

Native American’s and the girls in St. Lucy’s lost loved ones during the change in culture. Native Americans were beaten, tortured and even killed so other Native Americans would change cultures. According to Carolyn J. Marr “At Chemawa, a cemetery contains headstones of 189 students who died at the school, and these represent only the ones whose bodies were not returned home for burial” that the school was harsh and treated the kids poorly which resulted in deaths of kids. The girls in St Lucy’s experienced the same hash punishments but they were not severe, as the Native Americans punishments were. The nuns were serious about changing the girls from wolves to humans, if one girl could not adapt to the culture then they would be kicked out

In this coming of age novel Lucy, by Jamaica Kincaid, a story is told of a young girl named Lucy as her life in America changes from what it was in the West Indies. Lucy struggles throughout the novel to find what exactly she desires. Drifting further and further from being similar to her mother. Lucy and her development throughout the novel are shown through her virginity, heterosexuality, and love as Kincaid forces questioning upon what is sexual normality. How one can feel trapped under sexual norms and feels lost.

Marie Lu illustrates the theme that family is important to happiness through Day’s dialogues. Day and June both lost their family and now they are with each other trying to save Day’s little brother Eden. Day is hurt and they are in Las Vegas alone trying to find the

Canada has been well regarded with its attitude towards multiculturalism, establishing an Act that protects the rights of people who have different beliefs and the encouragement for all cultures to work together. While being the only country to have a policy such as the Multiculturalism Act, racism has been a part of Canadian history, including but not limited to the colonialism of Indigenous Peoples and the internment of Japanese Canadians. The effects of colonialism on indigenous culture and the treatment of Japanese Canadians are reflected in the novels Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson and Obasan by Joy Kogawa. The main characters of the novels, Lisamarie in Monkey Beach and Naomi in Obasan, both come to terms with the effects of growing up in minority communities in British Columbia, as well as discovering their own identities, by reflecting on their pasts during a time of family tragedies. Lisamarie struggles with accepting and understanding her spirituality in a family that mostly ignores and denies their connections to the spirituality of their ancestors, due to the effects of colonialism and residential schools. Naomi reflects on her family being removed from their homes and the racism that the Japanese faced after the Pearl Harbour attack. Robinson and Kogawa use their protagonists to look back to the past and reflect on the events that have shaped their families. Lisamarie discovers how spirituality and relationships have been molded due to the colonialism and the

Colonial women in America suffered considerable oppression by society. Life in colonial America was difficult. Women had to be resilient, brave, hardworking and above all else, subservient to her husband. It was tradition and the law. Most certainly, this tradition was the reason some women captured by Native Indians, chose to stay within Native societies. Or when returned to their homes, chose return to them.

In ‘Lucy’ the character Lucy, an immigrant girl, leaves her home in the West Indies to come to America in order to reinvent herself and to discover her own identity. Her struggles for personal freedom and independence would require her complete disconnection from her family especially her mother. To do so, Lucy not only had to let go of her former identity, but she also has to void herself of the self-destruction and loneliness. Lucy’s liberation from the past is the key element to her finding her new self. That too will require her to mentally recolonized her past and present in a way she feels comfortable. The novel places Lucy at a cross road of culture and identities Antiguan and American. Upon arrival to America to work as an au pair for an

The relationship between Mariam and Laila grows overtime into an unbreakable love. Mariam is a vulnerable character that experienced hardships and negativity throughout her life. Her reliance on faith and religion gave her hope. Laila however, has had a positive upbringing from modern parents. Her education is what made her a strong and intelligent girl. Their personalities contrast to bring the best out of each other. However at first, in fear of being overshadowed by Laila, Mariam says “If [Laila] thinks [she] can use [her] looks to get rid of me, [she is] wrong. [Mariam] was here first. [She] won't be thrown out” (225). As Mariam has never been a priority to anyone in her life she was very defensive over her role in the house. As jealousy embarked upon Mariam,

The mother begins to rebel against tradition by taking an active role in educating and freeing herself. Through her radio, telephone and trips out with her sons she develops her own opinions about the world, the war, and the domination and seclusion of woman. She loses her innocence as a result to her new knowledge and experience.

After the death of her husband, Mother struggles to keep her family together by providing the support and guidance they need, and encouraging them to use good judgment and think of the family as a whole before making their decisions. As the family faces various obstacles, each seemingly more severe than the last, Mother begins

Lucy is clearly the most sexual female of the female characters and this description leads to the reader understanding the inappropriateness of the women being overtly sexual and in some ways them understanding the threats the ‘New Women’ possess. When dying Lucy is described as having a “voluptuous mouth” and her body to be “withering and quivering” once again the ‘New Woman’ is referred to as being very sexual and confident,

Although Mira and Lucy have different traits but both women are battling with fear of stigma that was placed over women based on societal insolences. Both Lucy and Mira are suppressed by how their society views women. Both of them had to rely on their fathers. Both of these stories share a similarity based on lack off feminism in their culture Joseph and David are willing to keep their daughter's safe from harm and feel that their daughter’s safety is their obligation no matter how they are viewed in their society. In Disgrace after him and Lucy had the run in with the three men David stayed in the countryside with her to ensure that his daughter will be safe and he also helped her around her farm. David even confronted Petrus for not protecting her from the three men and Petrus ensured him that he would keep Lucy safe from anymore incidents to come.