"Annie John"

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The paper examines "Annie John" and discusses the development of the young girl in the story, Annie, throughout the many stages in her life. The paper conveys the close relationship that Annie shares with her mother, then the rift in their relationship and how Annie tries to replace her mother. The paper describes Annie's major revelation that she must move on and escape from her mother.

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"Sometimes it is more appropriate to say that the child is the father of the man rather than to say it the other way around. Simply put, the relationships, experiences, and the life that we live when we are young, in turn, shape who we become as we get older. Such is the case in Jamaica Kincaid's short narrative Annie John, where the reader witnesses the development of a young girl, Annie, throughout many stages in her life. The novel Annie John is thus a narrative bildungsroman, "a novel that recounts the development of an individual from childhood to maturity, to the point at which the main character recognizes his or her place and role in the world." Notable, too, is that the book has an initial situation which is reversed as the plot unfolds, and that ultimately leads to a powerful revelation (Miller)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Bouson, Brooks J., Jamaica Kincaid Writing Memory, Writing Back to the MotherFirst Edition (State University of New York Press, Albany) 2005
• Kincaid, Jamaica. Annie John. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1985.
• Miller, J. Hillis. "Narrative." Critical Terms for Literary Study (1995): 66-79.

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