Many novelist of the time have wrote their books based on the story of their life, where they lived and the effects it caused. Within the novel, Annie John, author, Jamaica Kincaid's use of the character of Annie John to reflect a young girl's development in the Caribbean society in the late 1950's. Kincaid's self reliance provides a basic foundation for the character of Annie John portrayed as Kincaid and her struggle to find individuality in a male privileged century. Annie seeks capability to separate from her mother; the male privileges occurring in her home and community of Antigua; and the progressions in herself. Annie, like Kincaid is living in the Caribbean islands of Antigua following a standard of male being the dominate, and females only being a domestic, and sexual mate. The beginnings of Annie's development are full her families happiness and safety, till she turns 12 she sees all not in favor of her. During the time the British colonized the Caribbean, Kincaid wrote a......
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