One of the questions I can answer for the paper: This work is the story of part of a girl's life, but it's more that that. What are some of the ways Kincaid makes this story universal?
Her first piece of fiction, "Girl" was a liturgy of commands and criticisms in her mother's voice directed to her young daughter.
The poem "Girl" by author Jamaica Kincaid shows love and family togetherness by creating microcosmic images of Western Caribbean familial practices and imbedding them in a seemingly incomprehensible text.
"Girl," the first and probably most important piece of the collection, high…
