Girl by Jamaica Kincaid

This time, our class read a story called "Girl" by "Jamaica Kincaid." This story is about a mother who is very strict and always command on her daughter. She taught her daughter to be the kind of girl that the man want to marry with because on the island that they lived there are many women who had children with men without marry. The story made me think that her mother is too strict and if she was my mother, I might want to live away from her. But, if I think deeper about the story, I think that the mother love her daughter so much that she do not want her daughter became like the other girls and women in the island and because of her love that she give to her daughter it changed her to be a strict mother that always command on her daughter.

While I read this story, I got confused with a lot of the words, for example "Benna" on line six, "Slut" on line eight, "Dasheen"on line eighteen. These words are strange to me because I never saw it before. To help me with these words I used a dictionary to help me understand what I read but I figure out that it did not helpful for me because some words I could not find in the dictionary. So, later I found out that below the story, there is a glossary that give me the definitions of the words that I could not understand and it help me understand the story a lot better. I also got confuse when I read the sentence that said "Don’t throw stones at blackbirds, because it might not be a blackbird at all." When I read this sentence, I could not understand what it means and I tried to guess the meaning of this sentence that if you throw the stones at blackbirds, some unlucky things will happen to you.