Reflective Essay Jamaica Kincaid
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In this Essay Jamaica Kincaid explains her experience on visiting England for the first time. The focus was to be able to explain how the statues and the manifestation of the colonizers culture influenced hers as a child growing up in Antigua an island in the Caribbean once before a British Colony until 1967, and then finally becoming an independent nation within Commonwealth in1981.
In the beginning of the essay she was upset, about the obscene amount of influence the English had on her culture. She and her fellow classmate were taught all about the English âI knew the details of the year 1066 (the Battle of Hastings, the end of the reign of the Anglo-Saxon kings) before I knew the details of the year 1832 (the year slavery was abolished)â