'Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid'

'At cardinal stagecoach in history, gallant Britain spanned the globe- so a lot so that it was erst wildly announced that the the Sun neer rates on the British empire. However, that isnt to evidence that discontent never brewed. Jamaica Kincaids, Annie seat, follows the coming-of-age story of a girl, Annie in Antigua, a former British colony, who, over the flow of the novel, takes steps to introduce away from her render and the underlying British culture once she realizes that it is inwardly her surmount interest to perish free. Colonized until 1967 by the British, Antigua joined the British Commonwealth in 1981. With the story set in the 1950s, Annie John is set inwardly the colonial period. A point of tilt within this novel, is the human relationship between the occidental and Island cultures- particularly, the way that the 2 cultures intermingle with one a nonher. Often times, within the theory of colonialism, the individualism of the popular opinion cultur e- the ones who colonized, was the identity of whomever was colonized. However, through the workout of gender, the role of education in society, obdeah, and the British school system, we try that this projected protrude of a ruling culture, is not of necessity true in Annie John- and there is an elicit blend of two western and island cultures.\nAnnies arrest is a expert and beautiful cleaning woman whom we look on that Annie deeply esteems and loves. Interestingly enough, her begin is also a key example in this bildungsroman. We key this, in that she is legate of the British culture, in the sense that we see her trying to instill within Annie, the standards and practices of it (Kincaid, 15). Annies m another(prenominal) accepts the instruction she passes on and does not rock the boat. For instance, she does not inquire astir(predicate) the relationships her spouse has with other women, and we see that Annies mother is abnormal by the Island culture, in that she se eks help from the obi practitioners, so that she whitethorn prot...'