This story is about Kincaid's rough relationship with het mother. More specifically, Kincaid tells that she does not want to talk to her mother again. One day, she listened her mother talking unkindly about her in a conversation over the telephone and she said that she wished her daughter dead. Jamaica became totally distant from her mother and says that her mother says horrible things to her and to her three brothers. In the story it is said that when her mother died, everybody at her funeral said that she is a nice person, generosity and so on, and this get me confused becuase if she was such a woman, why did she treat her children with the worst way. Moreover, Jamaica often says that she would rather be dead than spending eternity next to her mother. By this, i understand how much does she hate her mother and what kind of relationship did they have. Last but not least, the most important thing of the story is that Jamaica, despite the fact that her mother treated her with the worst way, she did not give up,instead, she was trying for her own independence and was living her life in her own way and as she wanted. Also, Jamaica knew that her mother was not treated her well and when she grew and became a mother of two, she did not treat het children as her mother did.
Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo
Beginning from the title of this poem, it prepares us that something bad is happening or death.
"The world begins at a kitchen table." This is the first sentence of the poem, a kitchen table or a family table brings people together, and families on this table share many things,feelings, emotions, thoughts or even plans for the future. Also, many are the parents that wait for this table in order to sit with their children,to discuss with them about many issues such as how should they behave, what is good and what bad in life and so on. Moreover, there may be arguments for many reasons between the members of a family, but they can find a solution in order to end this "intense conversation". So, in other words, this table brings people together and is a place where people are connected with each other. The theme of the poem is that life is a circle and that unexpected things can happen anytime. In this poem are mentioned the stages of life, such as terror, burial, suffering, remorse, laughing, crying,sing and sorrow. All this words are examples of life stages that anybody can avoid them.
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