5/24/2023 0 Comments Annie john full book![]() ![]() In the initial chapters of the novel, he is a part of Annie’s prelapsarian paradise. There are moments of tenderness and sympathy that little Annie experiences with her father. In fact, when filtered through young Annie’s consciousness, he comes across as a caring father, who built their house, the furniture within, and also the spoon with which she eats. Although he exists on the fringes of the familial set up, he is not devoid of love and affection for his family. Alexander John is portrayed as a city and a rather harmless man. On the other hand, Drown is marked by the almost complete absence of fathers in the lives of their protagonists.Īnnie’s father, Mr. In Kincaid’s work, we happen to see a father figure, even though he always exists on the periphery. Kincaid’s Annie John is a bildungsroman built around a woman protagonist whereas Díaz’s Drown is a collection of ten short stories focusing on the survival of young adolescent male protagonists. One can make an interesting discovery while analyzing Kincaid’s Annie John and Díaz’s Drown against the historical backdrop of colonization and the Civil Rights Movement – the marginalized role of the father figure. ![]() Such themes are remarkably played out in the works of the two most popular post-colonial writers, Jamaica Kincaid and Junot Díaz. ![]() Caribbean writers see alienation as a universal human condition and perceive it through varying levels of consciousness. ![]()
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