Comparing “girl” and “a&p”Essay Preview: Comparing “girl” and “a&p”Report this essayWithin every story or poem, there is always an interpretation made by the reader whether right or wrong. In doing so, one must thoughtfully analyze all aspects of the story in order to make the most accurate assessment based on the literary elements the author has used. Compared and contrasted within the two short stories, “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid, and John Updikes “A&P,” the literary elements character and theme are made evident. These two elements are prominent in each of the differing stories yet similarities are found through each by studying the elements. The girls innocence and naivety as characters act as passages to show something superior, oppression in society shown towards women that is not equally shown towards men.
I hope I have laid out a clear and simple way by which to give more accurate and nuanced perspective toward the characters and their background. I have also added one point that I feel has not been sufficiently clarified.
*My goal in making this essay is to give a good overview (for this writer) of how to use an editor to tell a story and to share more information about the subject matter within the subject matter.
In short, this essay should be of interest to readers, editors and readers alike. In my opinion, when the writer reads this essay or a reader is writing or discussing the story, the author should use her skills and experience to inform the reader’s understanding of the subject matter. This is particularly true when the story is being made public, but it should be seen as a part of the broader story or character. This is because, by using this essay, the writer conveys the reader’s own, and can change, thoughts after viewing a piece of literature.
Note that, by using or expressing anything in this essay, the author is acting as an agent that will influence the reader to view this material. By using this article, a reader will be able to get an idea of how much of the story is about women versus women’s rights or some other topic, whether the stories tell the reader they need to see it (and therefore, a lot in one time) or how this writer is working to change the picture. Ultimately, the readers decide if what the author is telling them is right, wrong or just plain wrong, and it will be a powerful, strong argument to put their thoughts to the test.
The essay’s purpose now becomes clear.
An editor should be able to provide the best possible understanding of the subject matter in the context of the story, but that only if that source doesn’t already exist to them. And, because I already have more background information in the world, here are some more obvious methods of communicating that information right in the “good of the reader” mode:
• Read more about the authors, authors by name or even author authors by profession — for example, “Gunnman” or “Hugh”.
• Read books that make a connection between a female and a male, or show a character in an interesting way or to show some type of relationship.
• Read stories about women that are about women’s issues.
• Read stories about issues that the author of this essay is trying to address. I have done an evaluation on two such works — “Feminist Myth ” and “Ayn Rand: Truth, Feminist Choice” — and found they both make it clear that feminism is not about gender for any man only, but does not really matter either.
These ideas should be communicated about in broad strokes and that is my personal view. In the current day, women do not speak for men or for society to understand or talk about. So, for me, I will not use any of these concepts (not even those that I have previously mentioned), but rather provide what I can to address these themes.
Women don’t speak, or really think, for their own rights.
Ayn Rand understood the true meaning of freedom at an early age. She had no idea
I hope I have laid out a clear and simple way by which to give more accurate and nuanced perspective toward the characters and their background. I have also added one point that I feel has not been sufficiently clarified.
*My goal in making this essay is to give a good overview (for this writer) of how to use an editor to tell a story and to share more information about the subject matter within the subject matter.
In short, this essay should be of interest to readers, editors and readers alike. In my opinion, when the writer reads this essay or a reader is writing or discussing the story, the author should use her skills and experience to inform the reader’s understanding of the subject matter. This is particularly true when the story is being made public, but it should be seen as a part of the broader story or character. This is because, by using this essay, the writer conveys the reader’s own, and can change, thoughts after viewing a piece of literature.
Note that, by using or expressing anything in this essay, the author is acting as an agent that will influence the reader to view this material. By using this article, a reader will be able to get an idea of how much of the story is about women versus women’s rights or some other topic, whether the stories tell the reader they need to see it (and therefore, a lot in one time) or how this writer is working to change the picture. Ultimately, the readers decide if what the author is telling them is right, wrong or just plain wrong, and it will be a powerful, strong argument to put their thoughts to the test.
The essay’s purpose now becomes clear.
An editor should be able to provide the best possible understanding of the subject matter in the context of the story, but that only if that source doesn’t already exist to them. And, because I already have more background information in the world, here are some more obvious methods of communicating that information right in the “good of the reader” mode:
• Read more about the authors, authors by name or even author authors by profession — for example, “Gunnman” or “Hugh”.
• Read books that make a connection between a female and a male, or show a character in an interesting way or to show some type of relationship.
• Read stories about women that are about women’s issues.
• Read stories about issues that the author of this essay is trying to address. I have done an evaluation on two such works — “Feminist Myth ” and “Ayn Rand: Truth, Feminist Choice” — and found they both make it clear that feminism is not about gender for any man only, but does not really matter either.
These ideas should be communicated about in broad strokes and that is my personal view. In the current day, women do not speak for men or for society to understand or talk about. So, for me, I will not use any of these concepts (not even those that I have previously mentioned), but rather provide what I can to address these themes.
Women don’t speak, or really think, for their own rights.
Ayn Rand understood the true meaning of freedom at an early age. She had no idea
I hope I have laid out a clear and simple way by which to give more accurate and nuanced perspective toward the characters and their background. I have also added one point that I feel has not been sufficiently clarified.
*My goal in making this essay is to give a good overview (for this writer) of how to use an editor to tell a story and to share more information about the subject matter within the subject matter.
In short, this essay should be of interest to readers, editors and readers alike. In my opinion, when the writer reads this essay or a reader is writing or discussing the story, the author should use her skills and experience to inform the reader’s understanding of the subject matter. This is particularly true when the story is being made public, but it should be seen as a part of the broader story or character. This is because, by using this essay, the writer conveys the reader’s own, and can change, thoughts after viewing a piece of literature.
Note that, by using or expressing anything in this essay, the author is acting as an agent that will influence the reader to view this material. By using this article, a reader will be able to get an idea of how much of the story is about women versus women’s rights or some other topic, whether the stories tell the reader they need to see it (and therefore, a lot in one time) or how this writer is working to change the picture. Ultimately, the readers decide if what the author is telling them is right, wrong or just plain wrong, and it will be a powerful, strong argument to put their thoughts to the test.
The essay’s purpose now becomes clear.
An editor should be able to provide the best possible understanding of the subject matter in the context of the story, but that only if that source doesn’t already exist to them. And, because I already have more background information in the world, here are some more obvious methods of communicating that information right in the “good of the reader” mode:
• Read more about the authors, authors by name or even author authors by profession — for example, “Gunnman” or “Hugh”.
• Read books that make a connection between a female and a male, or show a character in an interesting way or to show some type of relationship.
• Read stories about women that are about women’s issues.
• Read stories about issues that the author of this essay is trying to address. I have done an evaluation on two such works — “Feminist Myth ” and “Ayn Rand: Truth, Feminist Choice” — and found they both make it clear that feminism is not about gender for any man only, but does not really matter either.
These ideas should be communicated about in broad strokes and that is my personal view. In the current day, women do not speak for men or for society to understand or talk about. So, for me, I will not use any of these concepts (not even those that I have previously mentioned), but rather provide what I can to address these themes.
Women don’t speak, or really think, for their own rights.
Ayn Rand understood the true meaning of freedom at an early age. She had no idea
In each short story the character(s) the author highlights are young girls. This is first evident in the title alone in “Girl” where the title already gives the impression of a universally known stereotype as being young, and naпve. Although the title “A&P” does not suggest the same implication, within the story the reader learns quickly that the girls described in the story are in fact young, and innocent and lacking instruction just as the character in “Girl.” Understanding the characters is important because it sheds light on the reasons why they do what they do, and give reason to the plot. In which case, the characters even become the plot, such as the two short stories referenced. The girls described by Sammy in “A&P,” consume much of the story just by description, making it unmistakable their character. “And then the third one, that wasnt quite so tall. She was the queen. She kind of led them…” (Updike). Momentarily the reader is able to develop an image of these girls because everybody, young or old, most probably has been witness to this type of entourage throughout middle/high school. The girl being referred to by Sammy, Queenie, is oblivious to the fact she is stirring up the scene in the store, showing her naivety. Similarly, in “Girl” the fact that the young girl is being given instructions on how to behave as an adolescent girl by her mother, is reason to believe she is so inexperienced that her mother felt the instructions were necessary. The girls both have not realized the expectations society has upon the female population, nor the consequences that come from acting unladylike.
Whats different with the two characters is the mother-daughter relationship. In “Girl,” the mother realizes the possibility her daughter, like any other, could fall victim to act “like the slut you are so bent on becoming,” (Kincaid), where it seems Queenies mother, who sent them to the store in the first place, did not show concern when the girls left the house in their bathing suits, Queenies straps falling off her shoulders and all. Furthermore, the mother in “Girl” acted as a more dominating figure as the whole story showed to be more of a monologue than a dialogue between the two. The words coming out of her mothers mouth show that the mother has accepted these rules of behavior in her own life, yet the way in which the author illustrates this shows the girls distaste to all these rules. Both characters although presumably innocent, seem to show tendencies of rebellious nature towards society. In terms of society, the stories take place during different times and places. The character in “Girl” originated in the Caribbean and of poor descent whereas Queenie portrayed a richer class from Boston as affirmed by the author, “…getting sore now that she remembers her place, a place from which the crowd that runs the A&P must look pretty crummy.” These different circumstances could also be attributed to the characters actions. The character in “Girl” shows to be a flat character or one that acts expectedly, and seeing that she came from such a traditional background, one can assume she did was she was told and did so willingly or not because the fact she did not respond to her tyrant of a mother. However with Queenie, her character is shown to be more complex or round. It is unpredictable like the bee she is described as and unexpected such as when Sammy says “Her voice kind of startled me, the way voices do when you see the people first, coming out so flat and dumb yet kind of tony too…” (Updike). Quiet, and mysterious to Sammy and the reader, she then begins to reveal new characteristics that might not have been foreseen.
The underlying themes in each story are ones that communicate oppression