`Girl` by Jamaica Kincaid

br The Girl ' by Jamaica Kincaid 2005

Sometimes a big story which consists of many volumes is completely clear to the reader . Despite of its considerable volume it is destinated to the only thesis statement and all the events and relationships of the story are presented by the author in to prove and hilghlight this statement .But sometimes a short essay consisting of several passages or even sentences can provoke more questions than any other big story . Girl ' by Jamaica Kincaid is a wonderful example of that . At first sight that

's a simple dialogue between mother and daughter , a range of advices or instructions given by the mother in to teach the girl how to behave herself . Actually , there is nothing of unusual in that taking into consideration the fact that the upbringing itself is based on istructions given by the parents to the their children . But the understanding Girl ' as only a list of instructions can result to be too simple and superficial if discussing this story within social , cultural and politic particularities of the time and place depicted in the story . One of the main advantages reached by Kincaid in Girl ' is a wide range of hidden meanings which do not cover the whole subject matter of the story but are present on some subconscious , latent level . Kincaid revealed a great talent by putting so many of intense emotions in so small story . As it will be shown below , Girl ' contains a few thesis statements depending on how to analyze it . But through the tight and constant mother 's instructions the main and the most general thesis of the novel is expressed : each mother tries to pass the most of her experiences to her daughter in the latter could avoid a plenty of problems and concerns her mother has lived through and it is very important for everyone to have such a mother ' in his life , to have somebody who could help you , teach how to do this or that thing , to be you guide in this life ,no matter how severe . This thesis was issued by Jamaica basing on her own life

Regarding the whole structure of this research , it will be realized according to the following outline

1 .The discussion of the whole structure of the story (its linguistic and semantic particularities

2 . The main points of Kincaid 's autobiography and the of social and cultural backgorund appropriate to Girl

3 . The presentation of a range of literary genres which Girl can be referred to

4 . The discussion of the possible interpretations of Girl whether they really correspond to Kincaid 's intentions

5 . The conclusion in which the main thesis statement given in the introduction is proved Without any doubts Girl ' is a polysemantic story .The first reason proving that is that the reader doesn 't know exactly how to denominate the story 's genre . Is that an essay , poem or a dialogue Certainly , each of these literary form can be correlated...