What Is The Structure Of The Hired Girl

Boca Grande, Florida (33921) has a population of 1,230. Boca Grande is a small town located on the west coast of Florida. The second you get off the plane you can smell the salty waters and fruity smoothies. The dry air and glaring sun on your skin brings me the feeling of warmth and happiness. The bright green palm tree leaves rustling in the wind providing slight shade from the bright golden sun. The sand if full of shells, that with one wrong step will slice your foot. Making your journey down to the water not comfortable. The water is so still in the morning it looks like a painting. Even when it's seventy-five degrees outside the water is still as clear as glass. It’s cold at first, but after you dive under like a dolphin once or twice

In “Girl”, the mother tries to change the way her daughter lives to make her life somewhat easier and better for her. “this is how you set a table for dinner with an important guest;” (172). Her mother tries to prepare her by even showing her how to set the table with specific guests. This suggests that the girl did not know what she was doing really, so her mother steps in to teach her and change her ways of how to go about things. Some might argue that the girl was already a promiscuous woman so the mother was trying to change her for both of their reputations in the Antiguan

Both girls obtain their own jobs to make their own money, but their fathers respond negatively towards their independence. When Jeanette works, her father “[slashes their piggybank] apart with a knife and [steals] all the money” (250). When Miranda works, her father is unappreciative and doesn’t understand why she needs a job. In addition, Jeanette's father tells many stories where he is always portrayed as the hero. However, time after time, he isn’t there for his children, and yet he still asks, “Have I ever let you down?” (248). Sadly, Jeanette never has the heart to tell her father that he has indeed let her down, several times. Her father makes many empty promises, like the glass castle for example. Her father told her he would build her a big, beautiful castle made of glass, but Jeannette’s hard work on the foundation ended up becoming a trash pile. Jeanette’s father also came home drunk many nights, where he would “[break] windows and [smash] dishes and furniture...then he’d look around at the mess and at [the] kids standing there.”

Maid by Stephanie Land tells the story of a young woman struggling to get by with her daughter. Her story is important because of the constant sacrifices and the genuine nature of it. Reading this made me understand the privilege of not having to worry about where my next meal will come from or if my next paycheck will allow me to afford my living situation. This story is important because it uniquely explores poverty, motherhood, and identity struggles from a gritty first person lens. Land traded dreams of writing for a low-paid maid job when she left her daughter’s father, Jamie.

First of all, Jeannette is a hard worker, unlike her parents. For example, she got a job at thirteen years old, and after working hard on her school’s newspaper junior year, she went to New York her senior year at a public high school that offers internships instead of classes.

Jeannette displayed an uncanny representation of the Promise of Hard Work in her constant effort used while trying to raise money to fund her own family when her parents refused to. When Jeannette was a little girl, younger than thirteen years old, she brushed off the crazy living styles of her parents and disregarded it as a fun time. The moving from house to house was seen as an adventure, and the laying on the ground at night watching the stars was the alternative version of a classroom education. However, once Jeannette reached her teenage years, she realized that how her parents’ money problem was something of seriousness. Her father stealing their money was causing such financial stress, that Jeannette had to start supporting her family of six. Walls remembers, “I was afraid that Mr. Becker wouldn’t give me the job if he knew I was only thirteen, so I told him I was seventeen. He hired me on the

One reason that I believe king Tut died of natural causes is because king Tut had a fractured leg. Since they didn’t have medicines or antibiotics back then, king Tut could have died of an infected wound. Some believe that he did this after falling out of his chariot. “A sudden leg fracture possibly introduced by a fall might have resulted in life threatening conditions.” Dr.Hawass explains. This is just one reason that I believe king Tut could have died of natural causes.

The girl distrusts her mother and believes her to be out of touch, while helping her father in "his real work" (468). Surprisingly, the girl's desire to avoid the manifestation of her femininity in womanly tasks, such as cooking and cleaning, influences her into feeling that her mother is "plotting now to get [her] to stay in the house [. . ]. and keep [her] from working for [her] father" (469). The girl chooses to dismiss her mother, thereby dismissing her own future role as a housewife.

Written in the 1978, “Girl” is a short story that helps to understand how mother-daughter relationship were back then. The story is mostly told in the second person where the mother is telling her daughter how she should accomplish her daily tasks and the daughter is just listening very carefully.  It is almost a monologue, the girl interrupted her mother only twice, but it was to ask questions, not to talk back. The mother sounds very dominating and overwhelming giving one instruction after another. The conflict is definitely man vs society because it is a story of a mother trying to raise her daughter the right way so that her daughter can fit in the society that they are living in without being seen as “less than” or “not good enough”. If this story had a climax it would be when the daughter says “but I don’t sing benna on Sundays at all and never in Sunday school" (14) because it is the only time the girl gets to talk in the whole story. It is not really a turning point but it is the only time her voice is heard in the story. Since that moment the mother’s language and her intonation is getting slightly nicer and softer. Since this story does not really has a climax the resolution is not really present neither.

     In 'Girl'; Kincaid lists a series of orders from a mother to a daughter in such a way that the characters' lives are illuminated and transformed by the mundane household details. The 'Girl'; is more of a gender type of a story, but there is also a lesson that needs to be realized by the girl. In this story the mother of this girl is her teacher, she tells her daughter of how the world is around her, just like Miss Moore in 'The Lesson.'; The mother in this story tries to make her daughter realize that he needs to be viewed as a woman within society. Who or what the

There are so many girls out there that have felt or have gone through situations like the character in “Girl” have been. This story was writing in 1983 where feminist issues where ignored. For many women had to learn how to act and be for every situation so other people wouldn’t think bad of them. The story “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid has feminist beliefs because the pressure from the society for girls to act what society considers to be lady which is an immense burden to have on their shoulders and Jamaica Kincaid describes this perfectly in the story. Throughout the story someone is talking to a girl about how to be a perfect lady. This makes the statement true that women have to go through so many issues especially being told by everyone how to be perfect lady. It is so difficult for girls to break the pattern of being told what to do even when they are doing everything is asked of them.

The “Girl” is a poem that was written by Jamaica Kincaid. The poem depicts a mother instructing her daughter of what to do, and how to do it. As stated in the poem the child was being instructed on how to buy cotton which shows that the person receiving the instruction is a girl, “buying cotton to make a nice blouse,” shows females attributes and qualities. As quoted, “iron your father’s khaki shirt so that it doesn’t have a crease,” shows that it is a mother speaking. The tone of the poem is one of denial, because of the instruction in which the mother was giving to the daughter. As stated, “always eat your food… turn someone else’s stomach;” and tone is throughout the poem.

When I was three months old, my parents requested my uncle to deliver me to my grandparents in China; my uncle was the stork and I was the baby. Although I was born in the states, my childhood was far from a typical Chinese-American girl. Instead of an alarm clock, I had a rooster. My grandfather drove me to preschool every day on a motorcycle, and after school I would come home to my grandmother planting seedlings in the endless field of rice paddies across from our house. On the weekends I would run through the Majong house to the snack shop where I would be nit picky about all the candies to decide which one was worthy of my five cents. I had completely assimilated into this culture, this childhood. Until the day that my dad stepped foot

From the start the girlchild was given gifts that stained in her mind as what she was suppose to become in life. With the little dolls, GE stoves and irons, and lipstick her parents put this ideal image of the perfect woman in her head. With these types of presents the girlchild is already learning her role in society.

“Girl” is a short story in which the author, Jamaica Kincaid, unofficially presents the stereotypes of girls in the mid 1900s. Kincaid includes two major characters in the story “Girl”, they are the mother and the girl. Although the daughter only asks two questions in this story, she is the major character. The mother feels like her daughter is going in the wrong direction and not making the best decisions in her life. The whole story is basically the mother telling her daughter what affects her decisions will have in the future. The mother believes that because her daughter isn’t sitting, talking, cleaning, walking or singing correctly it will lead her to a path of destruction. “Girl” is a reflection of female sexuality, the power of family, and how family can help overcome future dangers.