In Jamaica Kincaid’s “On See England for the
First Time” (1991) she claims that England, although made out to be a “very
special jewel” is nothing but a “leg of mutton”. Kincaid elaborates on this by
telling stories of her childhood when she was taught that England was a
glorious wonderland and everyone should act like English men and women, and
comparing them with her experiences in England “The white Dover cliffs, when I
finally saw them, were cliffs, but they were not white; you would only call
them that if the word ‘white’ meant something special to you; they were dirty
and steep…” (16). Kincaid expresses her feeling in order to convince the
Antigua community that their home is just as good England. “…. the sort of
English person I used to know at home, the sort who was nobody in England but
somebody when they came to live among the people like me.” (11). By doing so,
Kincaid hopes that the audience, her fellow Antiguans, realize, using an angry tone,
that England is not all its made out to be.
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