Jamaica Kincaids On Seeing England for the First Time :: On Seeing England for the First Time

Imagine your nicety being thrown aside and a new one was each that was taught to you? How would you react to it? In this story the author, Jamaica Kincaid, is talk of the town about how she reacted to this and what happened to her. The author grows up in a situate where England closure had taken place. She grew up in Antigua, a small island in the Caribbean. She is taught all her life about England, a place she has never seen. At an primeval age she started to realize that the English had taken over her culture. After numerous years of hating this country she had to see the place that had taught her a different culture and ideas. When she arrives there the hate for the country tripled and she starts to pick apart the entire place and allwhere she goes. As she moves through the countryside her feelings of hate start to show them egotisms in her thought and words. The feeling of deja vu, she has been there before, starts to come in after all of the years of maps and descripti on of the foreign land. Through the utilisation of emotional arguments and social appeal the author, Kincaid, positions the feeling across that she was a dupe of England. To get you to feel like the victim she uses lots of metaphors. In the outset paragraph she uses the one, England was a special jewel all right and alone special people got to wear it(p.61). It is right here that the author sets the tang of the essay. She gives you the idea that she was not special enough to put on this hoarded wealth of England. In doing this she makes a social appeal to anyone looking for a sight of colonization. In using descriptive language she make you feel ghastly for her in the how she had to Draw a map of England(p.63), at the end of every test. Every occasion she had was Made in England(p.62). It is here that Kincaid is trying to appeal to your emotions. She is trying to get you to think that she had no choice in her life about what mannikin of cloths she could where. Think of ever ything you own and where it is from. In her life every possible thing she had was from England. Once again Kincaid is trying to make England look like the repulsiveness country that ruined her life.