Mixtures of Identities

            Jamaica Kincaid is an Antiguan-American novelist. She was born on May 25, 1949 in Antigua. A small island that is around St. John. Jamaica Kincaid at the present time lives in North Bennington, Vermont during the summers. Also during the academic year she teaches at the Claremont Mckenna College in Claremont, California. Also she left Antigua when she was still young so her memories of Antigua were from a long time and in all that time Antigua could have change. If Antigua changed then is like losing a little of your identity. Let me explain, it’s your identity at first because it’s your home since you were little but if It change then is like changing a little your identity including if you left that place since you were little. In this two chapters of “A small place” she talks of tourist and how they see Antigua and criticize it. But also it talks of identity and how her identity changes for all the changes to the island.

            The identity of someone can be change by not normally embrace it. For the part of Jamaica Kincaid her identity had a change because as she left young she founded another home. By getting another home it’s like adding to your identity or even changing it. It all depends on the person and how the adapt to that new place. If I’m not mistaken Jamaica Kincaid actually says that her identity changes. Jamaica Kincaid tells that by the changes that were happening to the island of Antigua that she was not seeing the Antigua she left. They were so many changes that it look so different that she barely recognize it. By giving that statement she is telling that her home changed to much foe her and by doing so it messes up her whole identity.