SHORT STORY : GIRLWRITTEN BY : JAMAICA

KINCAID

TONE, MOOD AND STYLE

Name: Elaine Potter Richardson.Year of birth: 1949.

Place of birth: Island of Antigua.Education: Franconia College.

Genres: Novels, Essayist.1973- She changed her name to Jamaica Kincaid

because her family disapproved of her writing.

LETS MEET THE WRITER

EXAMPLE OF THE AUTHOR WORK

MR. POTTER (2003)

ANNIE JOHN (1985)

THE AUTOGRAPHYOF MY MOTHER (1995)

The short story girl by Jamaica Kincaid is about the instructions given a mother to her daughter. It is a mother and daughter relationship. The instructions are related to the topic such as house chores, washing, how to behave and cooking etc. Although those instructions sound bossy and demanding to the readers (us) it is actually a parents or a mother advice to help their daughter(the girl in the story) to grow up as a proper lady or woman. It is a prove that the mother care about her daughter.

In the story of girl, the mother kept accusing the girl of being determine to become ‘slut’ from her behavior. So, the girl try to defense herself by saying the dialogue “I don’t sing benna on sundays at all and never in Sunday school. The girl is an well-behave daughter because she obey to her mother by not singing benna in Sunday school. The girl only speaks twice to defends her self and ask question. Her mother actually wanted her daughter to grown up the same way as she was before. The last line of the story ‘you mean to say that after all you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker won’t let near the bread?’ , is the mother asking question to her daughter. Maybe it gives us meaning that the daughter didn’t became a perfect woman(sophisticated woman) that her mother wanted her to be, with all many way she can goes wrong and all the ‘rules’ that she has to follow as a woman.

SUMMARY OF GIRL

The author’s/writer’s attitude towards the writing (his characters, the situation).

A work of writing can have more than one tone.

Tone is set by the setting, choice of vocabulary and many more.

e.g : formal, informal, optimistic, joyful, angry, serious, etc.

?? TONE ??

The emotion that you as a reader feel while you read the literature. The situation’s atmosphere or

character’s feeling. e.g : sad, spiritual, romantic,

hopeful, mysterious, cheerful, etc.

?? MOOD??

TONE MOODAuthor’s feeling Reader’s feelingThe author expressed the feeling through their characters intonation-angry , sad

The readers expressed the feeling through their emotion respond-angry , sad

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TONE AND MOOD

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Every author has his or her own style, that is, each author uses literary devices, tone and mood in particular

way that makes his or her writing recognizable.

It is how the author uses words, phrases, and sentences to form their ideas.

It is how the author describes events, objects and ideas.

When you read several books by the same author, you become accustomed to the author’s style of writing and

some times you look for authors with similar style.

?? STYLE??

1- Personal word choice/ vocabulary.

2- Types of sentences.

3- Point of view from which the text is told.

4- Organization of the text.

4 ASPECTS TO CONSIDER IN ANALYSING AN AUTHOR’S STYLE

1.Naggy tone (IRRITATING & ANNOYING TONE)- the mother complaining tone to the girl’s character in the story.

Be sure to wash everyday, even if it is with your own spit; (line 28) Don’t squat down to play marble- you are not a boy, you know;

(line 29)

2. Serious tone- the mother advice seriously to the girl. don’t sing benna in Sunday school; (line 9)

3.Demanding tone- the mother demand/ask the girl to do chores and behave like a sophisticated woman.

Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry; (line 1 & 2)

TONE OF SHORT STORY GIRL

Touched: we felt that her mom wanted her to be the better person.

- Cook pumpkin fritters in very hot sweet oil; soak your little cloths right after you take them off. (line 3 and 4)

Pity: her mom control her too much.- don’t eat fruits on the street-flies will follow you. (line 10 and 11)

MOOD OF SHORT STORY

GIRL

1. Dramatic monologue- the author use the second person POV,so when we read the story, we felt that the instruction from the mother’s character is pointed to the readers (us).

- the whole passage

2. Italic font- The author use italic font to differentiate the dialogue between the mother’s and the girl’s dialogue.

“ but I don’t sing benna on sundays at all and never in Sunday school” (line 11)

“but what if the baker won’t let me feel bread”

(line 40)

STYLE OF SHORT STORY GIRL

3. Use Carribean words- The author use the Carribean words because it is her language. She is Jamaican and she use the language as the advantage to write a story, so that the readers recognize her writing (unique style) .

Benna (line 9) –national song of Antigua. Okra (line 18) – a tree. Dasheen (line 19) – some kind of food(dishes).

4. Long-single-sentences list.

This is how to love a man; and if this doesn’t work there are others ways; and if they don’t work don’t feel to bad about giving up.(line 37, 38 & 39).

Second person point of view

- Because in this story it keep repeating the words “you” and “your”.

Soak your little clothes right after you take them off; (line 3 & 4)

POINT OF VIEW OF THE SHORT STORY

1) Who is the author for Girl’s short story?

2) Give an example of the tone in the short story?

3) Give some moods that you feel when you read this story or another short story?

4) Name one of the aspects to consider in analyzing in author’s style?

5) What is the style writing in the short story?

Q&A

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TASHA, ZU, JYHA, NADIA AND IDA