Girl

As the day grows longer you haven’t sat down for two seconds all day. Every time you finish a task for your boss there’s another thing he has to complain about. After the work day is over and you go home, your exhausted so you go up stairs to lay in your bed and as you lie there you start to think about the dreams that you’ve always had since you were little. All that could have come true but instead your life is being ruled by idiots telling you what to do from their experiences, but where will that actually get you in life? How far will other peoples knowledge get you to be where you want to be? Well just so to answer that question for you so you don’t have to think too hard; other people's suggestions won’t get you far at all because no one will stand by your side and hold your hand forever you have to do what you think is right if not then you will just be someone else’s little mannequin until you die.

In the short story “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid, a woman is a slave in her own world being called brutal names and being labeled as things that no girl would want to be called. Nowhere in the story does the author say that she depends on those people whom are bossing her but yet she still listens to them, which isn’t really wrong so the karma just comes right back to her in the end. The reason for this is because the girl only stands up for herself once throughout the whole story, and by then it is too late. She has already lost her battle and now it’s just her against the world she has no one to depend on.
The girl in this story reminds me of a kid whose parents are constantly telling them to clean their room but kid never cleans their room yet they do everything else that their told to do. Since the kid is always procrastinating when it comes to cleaning their room, he is clamoring to get everything done when a very important guest arrives. The kid has to think fast and in the end nothing turns out to be as he expected. For the girl this is practically the same problem but a lot worst because at the end of the story is finally when all the “What if?” questions start to come to her.

In the end the girl learned her lesson a little bit too late, but that’s what makes the whole short story an incredible piece of work. The author really expresses her feelings throughout the story and finishes strong with a sentence that leaves you thinking “but what if the baker won’t let me feel the bread?; you mean to say that after all you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker won’t let near the bread?”the ending teaches the reader to avoid being bossed around in life or else all of the “what if’s” are going to come back to haunt you later on.