Antigua

This excerpt from Kincaid’s work focuses on tourists in Antigua. Kincaid talks about vacationers without specifying if they are from North America or Europe; however, Kincaid presents a greater contempt for European visitors when she says “(or, worse, Europe)” (Page 4). She depicts the way they think when visiting Antigua. She explains how they get amazed by the quantity of fancy Japanese cars on the road without knowing that the government provides substantial loans for vehicles, but limits the

‘Why Antigua and Barbuda?’ is an advertisement created and published at ‘wheretostay.com’. The text advertises Antigua and Barbuda as an ideal tourist destination. The text advertises the twin-island nation from its luxury hotels to its main attractions. As a result, the target audience of the text is the general public, however they lean more towards rich people. This is because of the fact that the text uses words that appeal to those who have a high income. The overall purpose of the text is to

Antigua Colonization: Sugar is Sweeter with Slavery Antigua is an island in the region of the Caribbean in the West Indies. It is also known as Waladii by the natives. Antigua is part of the country of Antigua & Barbuda. Barbuda, about sixty eight square miles, is a flat coral island about thirty miles north of Antigua. Antigua is in the midst of the Leeward Islands in the Eastern region of the Caribbean. Antigua is the largest of the English speaking Leeward Islands. Antigua is one hundred and

Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John was written about a young girl growing up in the post colonial society of Antigua. Antigua used to be a slave owning colony of Great Britain, and many of the people that live on the island come from African descent. Annie John, who is an African-Caribbean girl, is rambunctious and determined all at the same time. She has a tumultuous relationship with her mother and often rebels. This leads to much animosity between them. At a first glance, Annie John seems to be blissfully

one example, King attempts to summarize Kincaid’s opinion on tourists concisely when she states that “the tourist only goes to a place like Antigua “to have a rubbish-like experience” (Kincaid 67) and besides, is white” (King 894) It seems harsh to describe the Antiguan experience as rubbish, which King notes and explains by further quoting Kincaid: Antigua was originally settled by “human rubbish from Europe, who used enslaved but noble and exalted human beings from Africa” although [Kincaid] softens

Jamaica Kincaid published the nonfiction book, A Small Place, in 1988. A Small Place presents the theoretical story of a traveler going to Antigua, which is Kincaid's residence. Kincaid places the audience in the shoes of the tourists and tells the tourists what they would see through their movements on the island. In this book, Kincaid uses identity factors to represent the tourists. She uses socioeconomic background, which is a coalition of one's income and social background. She also uses culture

to her hometown. The author uses the expectations of the tourists when they visited Antigua to tell us about the reality of Antigua. She uses sarcasm to tell the truth of the island throughout the story. When she calls the tourist “ the ugly human being” or when she calls out all the things that the colonist did are crimes, these things show the audiences that the author was really angry about the past of Antigua and the effect of the past until now. Her emotions is just a response to the circumstance

The making of Guatemala’s beautiful hand-made rugs start in easter week sometime between March and April. (March 22 - April 23). Antigua Guatemala hosts the most beautiful religious celebration world wide, when huge festivals take place on the town’s streets, celebration begins on Ash Wednesday ( March 1st) also known as the first day of lent. The women of Guatemala put many hours into these rugs and they add many different colors, and various patterns. During Easter week hundreds of men are

been a tourist at some point in their lives. It is not often that they think about how the natives of their place of vacation live on a day-to-day basis. “A Small Place” by Jamaica Kincaid goes in depth how the natives of the beautiful island of Antigua live in poverty despite the fact that sightseers from wealthy countries visit the island all the time. A theme that is present in “A Small Place” is that tourism is an ugly thing. She later goes on in the book mentioning that while travelers are not

compelling that it caused him to wear the wrong hat for hot climate most of his long life. This appeals to ethos because her father was so convinced by the how England dress that her father bought a dress like those even though the weather in Antigua is hot. Furthermore, it shows that England had won her father heart and binding her father to become faithful to England. Another rhetorical devices that Kincaid used is Allusion. On chunk 1 “This is