Corruption In Jamacia Kincaid's A Small Place

Many denounce Kincaid’s latest book as an over attack, her gaze too penetrating and intimidating. The tone of voice continuously shifts throughout the memoir, starting from sardonic, manifesting into anger, to slowly conclude in melancholy. Though particular accusations, such as when the narrator cruelly rejects “you” as “an ugly thing”, may upset the readers, Kincaid purposely provokes reactions of defensiveness and guilt to challenge us

Kincaid clearly attacks the tourists for not understanding the value of Antigua and its heritage; they are “ugly human being(s)” (115) because of their ignorance. The vacant gazers are ugly because when they have reached the zenith of banality in their own lives, they use the poverty of the natives of a tourist destination like Antigua to feel better about themselves; the natives’ lack of wealth, opportunities and education all make that pasty-skinned tourist feel superior. The ugliness stems from the tourist’s use of the native’s backwardness to propel themselves forward.

A Small Place, a novel written by Jamaica Kincaid, is a story relating to the small country of Antigua and its dilemmas from Jamaica Kincaid’s point of view. In this novel Kincaid is trying to inform her audience that Antigua is in a poor state due to British imperial, government corruption, and tourism. Kincaid exposes her audience to the effect of these very problems in Antigua by using persuasive visual language. In the third part of Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place, Kincaid does an exceptional job in arguing that, her country Antigua has corrupt government officials due to British influence by appealing effectively to pathos, logos, and ethos.

In chapter 5, “The Vanished Settlements”, John Viele reveals information about the 21-year span of life on the Keys. The Civil War, living conditions, mosquitoes, fresh water, and isolation are some of the main hardships that many of the settlers had to experience, but only a few could endure the setbacks and live prosperous lives, as well as their families. Henry Geiger, Temple Pent, and Happy Jack were the most prosperous men during the hard times of the Key West, and through others around them, their stories can now live on.

The main theme of this novel work is a powerful journey that lead unknown strangers on this dull island where each one of them life is at stake between survival and fate. The author’s overall message to society is far the intended audience to know how justice needs to be served. The way the author Christie use each element such as characterization, conflict, and style to enhance the theme with the characterization she pin out points from the begging of the novel to let the beginning of the novel to let the audience know that this vacation trip that each of the strangers think they getting is going to turn out to be something more than what they all expect. The conflict again are within each character their self’s and the author make sure that in this novel there’s pin points that the

When a young author from New York City decides to take a trip to the southern city of Savannah, he finds himself falling in love with the town and ends up renting an apartment. He encounters many different characters, including Danny Hansford and Jim Williams, that gives the reader a good look into the aura of Savannah. The main conflict in the book occurs when a murder happens in an old mansion located in the town. The book follows the progression of the trial and the outcome following the court’s decision.

In the novel, A Small Place, Jamaica Kincaid expresses her opinion towards imperialism in Antigua, which has change the way how Antiguan people live. She then talks about issues of tourism and corruption, and how everything to the readers is “your fault” as she described. Kincaid also reveals the native’s view on tourism. The book is written in second person, explaining her opinion, and the reader is spoken to directly in the book. To make more sense of this, the reader is like a tourist whose visiting Antigua. The book starts outs having the readers introduced to Antigua for its sight and beauty, but as the book progresses, Kincaid shows the readers how Antigua really is. The whole setting of Antigua seemed to have gone unrepaired, living conditions are very poor, and places such as schools that are mentioned to be unrecognizable. Kincaid also creates feeling of shame and misfortune for the Antiguan people and blames the tourists, yet the tourist doesn't really seem to care for the moment. Native inhabitants have different opinions of tourist. Most see them as friendly patrons, but others such as Jamaica Kincaid, may see them as ignorant or cold hearted people who just don't understand. Her novel is considered to be anti-imperialist because the way she explains the issues of tourism and corruption, two of the themes which became dominant after British colonization.

Moreover, other themes include the effects and after effects of colonialism, as well as her general feelings of alienation. In her first non-fiction work, “A Small Place,” Kincaid captures the essence of Antigua through the use of vivid diction and imagery. After not having been home for twenty years, Kincaid returned to the island and based the book on the lives and lifestyles of those living

Authors Jamaica Kincaid and John Steinbeck show the consequence gender roles have by illustrating the everyday with symbols of entrapment and showing the damage inflicted to the individual by having their characters attempt to resist gender roles but, inevitably, crushed beneath them. Jamaica Kincaid begins painting her image of the harmful side effects of gender roles by showing how the innocence of youth is tainted and damaged. In the story “Girl” the reader is privy to what seems to be verbal instructions and lessons from a mother as she teaches them to her child. The lessons range from mundane housekeeping tricks to more unsavory topics.

In the passage, Jamaica Kincaid dramatizes the opposing forces of the desire for stability and the desire to grow as a human. The passage encapsulates Kincaid’s move to a new city up North and all the unexpected changes she discovers. By the end of the excerpt, she clearly delineates that she’s homesick and wants to return to her old, rural lifestyle because she “didn’t want to take in anything else.” This surface need of returning home and regaining stability in her life clashes with her subconscious, which begs to continue trying new experiences. Kincaid has outgrown her hometown and knows that the only way to further grow into a dynamic human being is through moving to a city filled with “good ideas.” Kincaid won’t be able to grow and evolve toward self-actualization if she only experiences her past, rural life.

Kincaid: Textual Analysis In Jamaica Kincaid’s novel [excerpt], an interesting character is presented to us; a character who has what she once longed for, but longs for what she once had. This internal conflict of a romanticized past clashing with a (what should be) new and improved lifestyle consumes the narrator’s mind. The narrator describes her first encounter with this new life with an almost cautious tone– she comments on how different her new way of life is (i.e. the fascination of the elevator and “eating food taken from a refrigerator” (Line 3)) but ultimately goes to bed because she “doesn't want to take in anything else” (Line 14).

As soon as the adolescents arrive on the mysterious island things take a turn for the worse. The youngsters become instantly swept away with the beauty of the island, “a kind of glamour was spread over them and the scene and they were conscious and made happy by it” (24). The island may

Kincaid writes in an angry tone which is reflected from her thoughts about her native island explained in “Anger in a Small Place: Jamaica Kincaid’s Cultural Critique of Antigua” written by Keith E. Byerman. She feels as if tourists do not care for her country therefore she writes a novel to tell others to change their ways. Kincaid’s writing is greatly influenced by her life experiences and by her struggling life growing up in Antigua. Kincaid’s mother died when she was born leaving her was only a father who didn’t even care for her. She lived a poor life, slowly losing the presence of her father. She showed interest in nature and wanted to learn more about it. She was sent to school because she wanted to become educated about the world around her. This is where her opinions on life and other around her began. Attending school was her first interaction with children her age. These experiences are the cause of her beliefs and views on her country and tourism. In the book, A Small Place, written by Jamaica Kincaid, she writes about how tourists who visit other places and treat it as their home away from home and do not take into consideration the history of the island in which they are not respecting. Kincaid describes tourists as morally ugly. She sees them as fat, “pastry like-fleshed” people on the beach. She shows that physical ugliness is part of tourism as well. The moral ugliness of tourism is inherent in the way tourists make use of other people for their pleasure. Such as the poor people. For example, Kincaid points out that the loveliness of the places that tourists attend is often a source of difficulty for those who actually live there. Kincaid’s writing is greatly influenced by her life growing up in Antigua. These experiences are the cause of her beliefs and views on tourism and her love for her country. Kincaid

In part one of A Small Place, Kincaid tries to persuade the readers, she does this by talking directly to them. Kincaid says that the tourists ruin the culture and that they are not justified in coming to Antigua for a vacation. Kincaid thinks that tourism is ugly, “an ugly thing, that is what you are when you become a tourist”(Kincaid 17). Kincaid is trying to persuade the reader instead of informing them with a fact or observation. This direct use of second person is successful to persuade the reader. It is successful because the reader might feel guilty for traveling and might change his or her perspective on traveling.

Jamaica Kincaid’s novel A Small Place is a fictional novel about her life growing up on an island that has been imperialised by the British. Jamaica Kincaid shows acrimony to the colonization of her country, towards the corrupt government that has stunted the growth of her country, towards the white people that took Antigua in their hands and molded it into something embryonic. The dictionary defines third world as “the underdeveloped nations of the world, especially those with widespread poverty,” with this description, Antigua will be classified as a third world country after achieving their independence from the British. A Small Place reveals that post-colonial Antigua is still pinned by a form of slavery through the nation's poor economy, government corruption, and the impoverished Antiguans. The poor economy and corrupt government are hand in hand to help create the impoverished Antiguans.