Essays on Annie John

The novel, Annie John, by Jamaica Kincaid shows how a young girl’s relationship with her mother changes as she goes through puberty. Annie John, the 12 year old girl, develops mentally and physically, but also starts to become distant from her mother who she has…

Jean Rhys’ novel Wide Sargasso Sea, Antoinette Cosway, during her childhood is discriminated for being “Creole” by the children she comes in contact with. Such discrimination leads to name calling such as “white cockroach” and “white nigger”. Antoinette later faces oppression by her husband, Mr….

Annie John is a novel written by Jamaica Kincaid in 1985. The book is a coming of age story as it depicts the life of a young girl named Annie John as she shifts from her childhood to her adolescence. At first, the book shows…

Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John focuses on gender relations and it’s the pattern throughout the novel. Gender relations also affect the mother-daughter relationship. Outside of the actual plot and the main characters, Annie John displays these gender relations specifically and clearly. With gender relations being an…

The relationship between Annie and her mother is the most important theme of the novel. The anxiety and disputes provoked by their alienation is what drives the plot, what starts the novel and finishes it. It is crucial to understand Annie’s claims that her mother…

In conducting an analysis of the two postcolonial works Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe there are multiple postcolonial themes present in both of these works. The primary focus of this paper will be to examine the way in…

Growing Up and Separation: Rebellion in Annie John In The Hunger Games when Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark eat the poisonous berries at the end of the games, they rebel against the games and challenge the authority of the leaders in the Capitol. This process…