GIRL

I read the article called ‘Girl' written by Jamaica Kincaid.

This story is about a girl who is educated by her mother to be a nice woman. Her mother is really fussy and annoying parson to her daughter about everything. She always brings up her daughter about the way of washing, cooking, and setting a table for dinner or tea etc... And also her mother says that she must not talk to wharf-rat boys. She always think about her daughter and what is good or bad thing for her future. What do you think about her mother? Do you think that her mother is an annoying person? 

When I read this article, I guess the meaning of unknown words or phrases’ in line 7. I try to imagine about a sentence, ‘always eat your food in such a way that it won't turn someone else's stomach’ (in line 7), but I couldn't try to picture in my mind and also I couldn't try to guess the meaning of ‘it turn someone else's stomach’. In class discussion, I could understand the meaning of this sentence. And I used a dictionary to help me understand the meaning of okra, dasheen, pepper pot, doukona, and slut but I couldn't find the meaning of pepper pot and doukona with the dictionary so I searched them with the Internet. I was surprised that her mother doesn't allow her to talk to wharf-rat boys. I thought that she can fall in love with only a rich man. I thought that if I was  a her daughter, I would feel bad because I don't want to dance to mother's tune. And I asked the question myself, Is her mother an annoying or vicious person? My answer will be no, because although her mother is  strict with her daughter, she loves her daughter very much and she just wants her to be good woman.