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Summary: Leaving behind and the threshhold..
Review: Jamaica Kincaid touches upon the hesitation of every person when she is on the verge of growing up; to be on her own, to be initiated to the world outside the comforts of a secure family, to leave behind the familiarity of people and places and step into unknown territories with the vague feeling that things are never to be same again. They are about to change irrevocably. This process of growing up along with the complexities of the adolescent mind is the story of Annie John who steps out of the shadows of her mother to discover her own world and her relationships with friends and her aspirations to her 'own' future. She walks the delicate balance between the excitement of the unknown and the pain of separation.
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Summary: Straying Adolecent
Review: Annie John written by Jamica Kancaid is a novel about a 10-year old girl from Trindad life changes after she entered her adolesant years. Annie John was an only child, that was shelter by her mother all her life, having close connection to her, by taking long baths and going for walks and always shopping her. As she became to become a adolecant her mother realizes this and stop doing the usual things she did with Annie, resulting her to have hatered and not connecting with her parents. This a powerful novel that shows how most young children began to stray from their family, because of the lack of not being able to communicate with each other. This is exactliy whay you see in Annie John. Unfortuneily I can not relate to Annie's experiences because I come from a family with a OPEN format and we can communicate with each other.
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Summary: Coming of Age in the Caribbean
Review: What a wonderful tale Annie John is! I read this book myFreshman year in college--it was a required reading for anintroductory anthropoligical course on the Caribbean. I was sodelighted to find out that Amazon included this novella on their list!
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Summary: Coming of Age in the Caribbean
Review: What a wonderful tale Annie John is! I read this book my Freshman year in college--it was a required reading for an introductory anthropoligical course on the Caribbean. I was so delighted to find out that Amazon included this novella on their list!
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Summary: I loved reading this book
Review: I wanted to read some of Kincaid's fiction, and i most say Annie John was great. I love the humor in her books, and how the characthers seem to come alive. Annie John is about the relationship between her and her mother. It makes one think of there own relationship with there mother.
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Summary: Didn't quite get it.
Review: I kept wanting to ask my wife if it rang true. A girl coming of age story that as a guy I just didn't relate to. A girl starts in a happy family and comes to hate her mother and become depressed slowly cutting herself off from her world until finally she leaves home to go to England. Maybe I'm too old and male to understand what this girl was going through, but I seldom understood her motivation.
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Summary: what an odd pointless book
Review: Dont waste your time with this!
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Summary: Annie John
Review: I had to read Annie John for summer reading and I found this book to be the most decent book. From a girl's perspective, this book really relates to real life: meaning Annie John goes through typical adolescent problems. Some people took this book that Annie was a lezbian but I didn't think so. Annie was just looking around for someone to replace her mother. Anyways, enjoy the book, it's great.
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Summary: Only a "picture" is worth a thousand words?
Review: I found this novella to be one of distiction. While a greatbattle rages inside the narrator against her mother and her homeland, the story is very peaceful. The flowing imagery in each desription of life in Antigua convey a sense of leisure and contentment.Annie seems to live by visualization. Her vivid dreams, as well as her everyday accounts are colorful and provocative. Even the words she hears from people, she sees as images, such as waves crashing on the beach. While she is obviously a bright child who wishes to get the most out of life, the reasons behind the hatred she develops against her life are not crystal clear. I don't think they have to be, just as provoked thought. Does she just need to stretch her legs because of her restless mind? Is it just the typical rebellion of an adolescent? Is she so afraid of death that she fears a connection to the things she loves? The cultural background is intersting in that it combines those of European modernity and that of a rich "West Indies" heritage (ie the mixture of a medical doctor and that of the Obeah woman). The use of herbs and other things grown on the island appeal to a reader's senses of touch, taste, and smell combined with the vivid pictures within Annie's mind. This book over all is a relaxing, short, drifting read that envelops the reader in a land many have not seen.
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Summary: Like a West Indies Breeze
Review: Jamaica Kincaid's "Annie John" is a great story that makes it all the more pleasant to read it, especially during the hot summer season. It's a quick read, told in a comfortable pace. Kincaid's masterful use of flashback, makes the story all the more intriguing. The story makes you think all the more how autobiographical it is, rather than fiction. It's a short book, but full of great time plots of being a child growing up in Antigua, and the relationship that a mother has with her daughter. It gives a detailed experience of a girl's childhood, and the electra complex that grew out of the human mind. I highly recommend it!
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