Coruption of Antigua

A detailed Summary of Coruption of Antigua

Jamaica Kincaid writes very well in expressing her feelings and letting the reader know how she feels on certain topics. She is very convincing on how beautiful Antigua is but also how corrupt it is at the same time. Kincaid writes with aggression and rage towards her Antiguan government, the tourism in Antigua, and the history of Antigua with the European influence.

The government in Antigua is run by corrupt people who really only care about money. "The government is for sale; anybody from anywhere can come to Antigua and for a sum of money get what he wants." (47) The only people in Antigua that live a life of island paradise are the ones with a lot of money. The bad thing in Antigua is the way the government is set up; there is no way to make an honest living, to make a lot of money in this place. The people that have lots of money in Antigua get it from corrupt things, like drugs, the rich people are mostly criminals. This is very sad, and feeling this way about your government is very depressing. Jamaica also is very disappointed in her government because they don't fund anything for the people that live in Antigua. The library in Antigua was damaged in 1974, and the repairs on it are s

Antigua is a small country which thrives of the money it makes in tourism, but like most places that thrive off of tourism, the natives hate tourists. Jamaica who is a native of Antigua really dislikes the tourists. "An ugly thing, that is what you are when you become a tourist..." (17) Natives of Antigua don't like tourists because the tourist has a lot more money than they do. A tourist is able to leave its native place to visit the native place of others; the natives of Antigua are too poor to go anywhere else so they are jealous of a tourist's ability to leave their native place. The natives make fun of tourists because a tourist is stupid to their culture, and the natives can tell a tourist anything and a tourist in their country would believe it. Tourism in a country is what drove people to make a place like the Mill Reef Club, a place where Americans could come and be secluded from the Antiguans but still have a vacation in Antigua. The fact that this was a private club, not allowing the natives to be part of it is racist and creates more anger. Kincaid calls them strangers in someone else's home, and they refused to talk to their hosts or have anything to do with them. "...pigs, that live in that sty (the Mill Reef Club)" (28). Referring to them as pigs makes it apparent why she has such harsh feelings. It was tourism originally that brought these people here to make their private club.

Beyond the tourism and corrupt government lies the glo

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Approximate Word count = 993
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: History