Annie%20John

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Annie John

• Jamaica Kincaid

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Chapter 8 Family Memories vs. Separation

• The relationship between Annie and her parents
• Old memories
• Self-introduction self identity
• The desire of leaving
• Refuses to become a wife

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Annie and her Parents

• Parents built things around the house? they built
  her with their own hands (p. 132-33)
• The position between the three? Annie between her
  parents (p. 133, 138)
• The dislike of mothers actions (p. 131)
• The walk with father

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Old Memories

• Things in her roombooks, photos, thermos,
  shells, shoes, clothes (131).
• The walk to jetty--Miss Dulcie (138), the
  road(139), the church, her friend, doll store,
  bank (140), doctors office (141), the grooming
  aids store, the library (142).

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Self-introduction

• Shows her own self-identity, the individuality in
  her
• My name is Annie John (130).
• Summary of her life (p. 132)

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The Desire of Leaving

• She never wants to lie in her bed and listen to
  her mothers movement in the house (130-1)
• last time, get away from things and people she
  is familiar with (133-4).

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Refuse Marriage

• Seeing her parentsthe decision not to marry
  (132).
• Gwen (137).

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Discussion Questions

• If Annies mother did not point out the need for
  Annie to grow up so suddenly in chapter two,
  would she still want to separate from her
  parents, especially her mother so desperately?
• According to Kristeva, becoming a mother can be
  seen as the reunion of a woman-mother with the
  body of her mother. Then, does Annies decision
  of not becoming a wife imply that she refuses to
  reunite with her mother?