Columbus in Chains is the chapter five of “Jamaica Kincaid” where the narrator, a girl, tells some events of her life that occurred simultaneously in her school and in her home. She presents some characters, her mother and father, her school mates, her teachers, and her best friend.
Something that is funny from this chapter is the way that the narrator presents herself as prefect in school, intelligent and bright, well behaved in class and home, and the opposite in other circumstances and with her friends. She recognize it in the story, that she was doing some things wrong, that she was conscious she should not do that but she wanted and she liked it and at the same time express her panic, her fear about loose her place and privileges, especially in her home, but also in school.
I believe about the part of the story when she wrote Columbus picture, that we could feel identify with her and with her reason and feelings. Our feelings when we are obligated to do something that we do not like, how our thoughts and feelings are influenced with external things and other people thoughts. Also she feels the fear about the result of her actions, as we many time feel about the consequences of our actions.
Sometimes we cannot control what is inside of us and want to go out. She just has a thought and posts it. Many times we can’t suppress our wishes, thoughts or feelings even if after do it we became remorseful. The girl losses her position in school just for that reason, it show us the weak equilibrium of the things. This anecdote teaches us our weakness and the weak equilibrium from the things around us.
Restrictions and emotions
The story also presents a point of view of restrictions that human have in their society. Some things that you can do, another that you can’t; good and bad, rights and obligations, prizes and punishments, all that things that control and limits our behavior. In the story the girls express their energy and emotions dancing and singing bad songs, and showing off their legs, and they were punished for it, as if it were a terrible thing. I believe the society was limiting their expressions in that way, and it also limits their development.
To see her mother as a crocodile mean she was seeing in the mother her bad actions, I mean she saw her mother as she feels.
Something that is funny from this chapter is the way that the narrator presents herself as prefect in school, intelligent and bright, well behaved in class and home, and the opposite in other circumstances and with her friends. She recognize it in the story, that she was doing some things wrong, that she was conscious she should not do that but she wanted and she liked it and at the same time express her panic, her fear about loose her place and privileges, especially in her home, but also in school.
I believe about the part of the story when she wrote Columbus picture, that we could feel identify with her and with her reason and feelings. Our feelings when we are obligated to do something that we do not like, how our thoughts and feelings are influenced with external things and other people thoughts. Also she feels the fear about the result of her actions, as we many time feel about the consequences of our actions.
Sometimes we cannot control what is inside of us and want to go out. She just has a thought and posts it. Many times we can’t suppress our wishes, thoughts or feelings even if after do it we became remorseful. The girl losses her position in school just for that reason, it show us the weak equilibrium of the things. This anecdote teaches us our weakness and the weak equilibrium from the things around us.
Restrictions and emotions
The story also presents a point of view of restrictions that human have in their society. Some things that you can do, another that you can’t; good and bad, rights and obligations, prizes and punishments, all that things that control and limits our behavior. In the story the girls express their energy and emotions dancing and singing bad songs, and showing off their legs, and they were punished for it, as if it were a terrible thing. I believe the society was limiting their expressions in that way, and it also limits their development.
To see her mother as a crocodile mean she was seeing in the mother her bad actions, I mean she saw her mother as she feels.
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