America from Antigua and does not latch onto anything in its path. Lucy herself absorbs

only small details of her new home, never trying to take in the place as a whole, not

looking beyond what is in front of her and truly tries to forget her past. Her first day in

America she reacts only to a few new experiences, i.e.,., her first elevator ride and food

from the refrigerator. She was taken out of school and forced to come to America to

work and help support her family. Her life here in America is filled with explorations,

especially in friendships and sexual encounters, however, her past and the life she left

behind in Antigua haunts her. The constant letters, which remain unopened, that she

receives from her mother, is a constant reminder of what she left behind upon her arrival

here in the states. Lucy was very depressed when she was forced to come to America

because she wanted to continue her education in the University in order to become a

teacher and have power. I believe that her ambition for power dealt with the way she felt

about the political rule of the English over Antigua. She wanted to break free and

never return to Antigua and to never read any of the mail her mother sent her in an honest

and imagining if that hadn't happened what I would have been." This woman is

Luther King Jr. preached for equality between blacks and whites and have an end to

and he was a leader. He had the kind of power that the 'white' had in a way. It can also

constant disagreements with her mother and the arguments all precipitate from one factor,

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Richardson, but she wanted to write about Antigua and in order to do so she had to

The mother shows her how to be in the world, but at the back of her mind she thinks she

In actual life 'white' is powerful and 'black' is powerless." It can be understood that

However, Kincaid realizes that she could never lose her true identity as Elaine Potter

past and forget the family she has left behind in Antigua. And in a sense, Lucy seems

boundaries of discrimination and prejudice because she was born a black female.

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Approximate Word count = 1507
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)