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On Seeing England For The First Time By Jamaica Kincaid

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Writer, Jamaica Kincaid, in her essay, “On seeing England for the first time” recounts on how the English culture was basically imposed on to her culture. Even though she had never physically seen England as a child, her education and her life were based on the culture of England. Kinkaid purpose is to convey the idea to inform the reader how the people of England made her feel superior to the settlers in the British colonies. She establishes a nasty and negative tone for a contemptuous. Kincaid begins her essay by discussing her different views on England that she gained while she was a child. Everyone that grew up with Kincaid up on the Caribbean island aimed to be more like the “perfect” England. As if she could not even acknowledge

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