Assignement-10

The Estrangemnet by Jamaica Kincaid

 This story is about the rough relationship  that daughter had with her mother and how her criticism of her changed after her experience as a mother.

A mother is a such a complex figure to thing about.Mother are expexted to be caring ,loving and sweet with her  children  but this thing didn’t happen in this story.She describes her mother as a person that was seen as nice by others, but not by her . She asserts that her mother, “said horrible things to us more often than not” and that the nice person everyone saw in her “was not at all known to us.The phrase that attract my attention is :"She truly wish me dead"and our mother said horrible thinks to us".This phrase support the idea that her  mother could have been a very bad person without heart ,because i think that any parent wouldn't wish something bad for their own child.I can imagine how a mother could say those  terrible things for her childern and wish her child death , this think for me was unacceptable. Jamaica understand that being a mother is a important thing and you should sacrifice for you children and maybe to give the life for them. She understood that her mother is not a good mother to grow and educate a child ,so she decide to be a good mother ,to care for her childern ,to be there when they have need for her.She decide to be a idependent woman and trying to do better things in her life. Because this thing is related with the theme of this story which is independence and motherhood.After i read the whole story i understood that we sholudn't give up ,we as a women should be strong and to try for e better life and in this way we may be a good person for our self ,and then a good mother for our childern.

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After I read this poem, I felt a strong sense of irony and sadness. I was very sad that the girl was so foolish to follow others blindly.

I think this poem is very sad, but yet very true. An ordinary girl is influenced by social values and it makes her lose herself. The girl is criticized that she is ugly and because of this, she lives in pressure. So, it makes us to use our criteria to judge others. Therefore, she is so upset that she commits suicide. Since she just wants to become the kind of person everyone likes, she does not know what she has to purse in her life. However, the last sentence that attract my attention is "to every woman a happy ending," I think the last sentence is super ironic. All in all, everyone has their own characteristics. We don’t have to care any comments from others or even to change ourselves. After all, not everyone is perfect, so just be yourself.. In my opinion, everyone is created different so that everyone of us can be unique.