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persuade her readers toward her perspective. Rhetorical devices such as mood, allusion, and the three credibility persuasion: logos, ethos and pathos.Using these rhetorical devices she persuades her audience how England may look like a sanctuary place to people who doesn't know much about England. Then she distinguish her life living on the British colony between how the England played a role to her life. Kincaid used rhetorical device like pathos in her writing. Pathos is used to get the

In this essay, I will be discussing foil as an aspect of characterization in Small Island. The patriotic Bernard Bligh and the ambitious Gilbert Joseph have contrasted overlapping patterns throughout the novel. Andrea Levy, the author of Small Island was born to Jamaican parents in 1948. Levy’s inspiration to write Small Island was her fascination of her Jamaican heritage, and how her parents came from Jamaica to Britain. She wanted to understand and present those experiences in a format of a novel

English two part one: assignment 2 Narrative essay My story takes place in Montego Bay, Jamaica the time is at midnight. It is a very beautiful island. It is south of the Caribbean island Cuba. The island has nice, quiet beaches. The food is very good and spicy. They have goats walking on the streets of the island. It also is the third largest island in the Caribbean it has pretty blue mountains and the people are really nice. Jamaica is a very pretty tropical island. The houses on the island

Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson. Her family raised her to be methodist with a splash of West Indian voodoo. She grew up poor on the island Antigua, which was controlled by the British in her childhood. Kincaid often wrote about the immigrant experience. In her short story “Girl,” a mother is instructing her daughter on how to live a honest life. In the story, food and clothes are motifs that reveal how to be a respectable woman in Antiguan society. First of all, food

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

From the passage, "On Seeing England for the First Time," Jamaica Kincaid paints a time from when she was just a child in school seeing England for the first time on a geographical map. Kincaid uses a tone of adoration for describing England, as stated in the second sentence of her essay. Kincaid describes England as, "a very special jewel." Based on this sentence and the following sentences thereafter, Kincaid's attitude towards England seems to be full of respect and adoration. In the following

Change at the level of an individual can be signaled by behavior, sense of values or manners of expression. In Chosen Place, Timeless People by Paule Marshall, Cities of Salt by Abdelrahman Munif, and Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje, each characters experiences different changes and how it affected them. In Chosen Place, Timeless People, the “chose place” is set on Bourne Island, an imaginary Caribbean island that was once a British colony. The island’s primary source of income is sugarcane

The Natives’ Emotions “For every native of every place is a potential tourist; and every tourist is a native of somewhere” is a simple yet factual statement from Jamaica Kincaid’s essay “The Ugly Tourist” (Kincaid 201). In this essay, Kincaid talked about all the emotions of the natives towards the tourists. She used the second point of view “you” to refer to the two persons she was talking about in her essay, the “you” as the ordinary person and “you” when you become a tourist. Kincaid persuaded

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

illustrates England as a superior force by using diction that alludes to religion and history. In the first paragraph, England is described as “Jerusalem” by the teacher, who seems to respect England. Because Jerusalem is considered a holy and important place by many religious people, the word “Jerusalem” indicates that the people in Antigua considered England as a respectable and superior country. In another paragraph, Kincaid alludes her experience in school to war and conquest. The two words “war” and