Living this way, Annie thinks about how a person can live without a mother when Annie meets a girl whose mother has died, Annie considers the girl’s loss deeply shocking. Annie and her mother wear matching dresses to show off how adorable they are together. Both her parents dedicate their attention to Annie her mother chews up food hard for Annie to manage herself, bathes, and massages her. When she reaches the age of 10, she has a few chores. At the beginning the book, Annie John believes that her life is perfect and an idyllic paradise. Through the novel’s course, Annie John moves from a child through puberty and to womanhood as she matures emotionally and physically. The central theme in Annie John is the titular character’s coming of age.
Throughout the novel, two major themes are identified: coming of age and motherhood. As Annie John gets older, she questions her identity and seeks independence from the island. At the age of 12 years old, Annie’s mother pushes her away. The spirited Annie John who is inseparable from her doting mother, has an idyllic childhood growing up on Antigua’s paradise island. Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid is narrated in the first person through Annie’s eyes, who looks back on her coming of age as an adult.
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