Love Jamaica Kincaid U England

For Kincaid and her family everything they dreams off, was about England, which include three of her family members were name after king Alfred, and the material things they owned and wore was “Made in England” (Kincaid, page 365).

Kincaid`s love for England quickly turns into reality. When she finally goes to the country side of England she realized that everything she was told about it was not truth. As she arrived, she found out that the people were rude and the land wasn’t as beautiful as she tough and everyone made it seems to be.

As she walked around the city, they were big monuments, famous street names, and sights but they were useless to the people in England. This showed who they are, how they truly act and are perceived with they own history and kind. Kincaid refers to English people as “White Cliffs of Dove” because they skin were so light, so delicate, so frail and so ugly from the inside and the outside.

In England she was a slave who serve at a servant in a white family, who live was conquest subjugation, humiliation, forced to forget, and even told that she couldn`t eat the same food as them. She holds a very strong dislike for it and even claims that she hates England. To Kincaid the whole perspective on England has changed. As an adult she knows better and realized that her beliefs of England of been the best place in earth to live were wrong.

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She hated everything from the air that she briefs to the food that she eats, as compared everything as it would be in a life sentence in jail (Kincaid, page 369, 674).

From the standpoint of Kincaid`s idea of something and its reality is always width, shadowy, and huge. Growing up on a part of St. John`s, Antigua Caribbean, as they were part of a cultural imperialism British colony, whom ruled their nation as well their culture`s of her native Antigua. She is an American writer whose essays, and stories are relative to her personal life, and her experience throughout her childhood until adulthood. Moreover, until these present days, English customs have affected her country lifestyle, identity, her family, and their culture in a very negative way towards English people. The real England she finally sees is way to far from the other England she was taught once, whose maps and history she learned, when she was a young girl in Antigua, I would like to take it out of my mind and my life forever.