Essays on Annie John

Annie John is the protagonist of the novel “Annie John”, a bildungsroman, written by Jamaica Kincaid in 1985. Annie’s sexual development, which is the part of growing up, changes her as a person and her stepping into adulthood is monitored. Her life in a small city becomes boring and unfulfilling as she grows up. At the beginning of the novel, Annie John is ten years old and she has a strong relationship with her mother. However, the situation changes when she enters puberty and gets her period and other female characteristics. As she reaches the age of fourteen, ...

Jamaica Kincaid’s novel Annie John (1991) is a pure reflection of female relationships that might be seen to go against societal norms. In the novel, the author creates a heroine who struggles in her search for self-identity but whose life is dotted with affection for fellow women starting from her mother to other girls with whom she interacts. The theme of homosexual or homosocial female love is present in the story and is best expressed through Annie John, the protagonist in the book. Annie expresses her desire towards her mother especially when she gets jealousy of the relationship ...

Liberty. Among the most widely putative theories of liberty is that there must be a single predominant formula under which all the comprehensible locutions about personal freedom and liberation. The pervasiveness of this notion largely influences Gerald MacCallum’s classic article, “Negative and Positive Freedom”. The author provides that the need for freedom of an individual is realized once an element of constraint is determined. These elements of constraints prevent individuals from becoming or becoming something. Liberation is a triadic relation between individuals, constraints, and ends. To ensure full liberty, the constraints to the “ends” should be completely inexistent. These insights ...

Somewhere in the Caribbean, narrator tells a story which describes her psychological changeover and talks about relationships of mother- daughter, racism, and education. ‘Annie john’ is an emotive story of a growing girl in Antigua. The novel was authored by Jamaica Kincaid in the year 1985. The story talks about Issues like clinical depression and struggle for the supremacy between medical science and native superstitious are also covered by the author in her novel. This paper discusses the novel, Annie John and talks about several other related aspects of the story. Annie john is the main character as well as ...