{"id":94,"date":"2018-10-25T19:14:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T19:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eng333-draft\/?page_id=94"},"modified":"2018-12-09T03:39:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T03:39:30","slug":"application-6","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/edmondsengl333\/application-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Reader Response Application"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Jamaica Kincaid\u2019s \u201cGirl\u201d Kincaid\u2019s\u00a0 the reader response theory can be shown through the overall breakdown and decipherment of the text. <\/span>The message in which text reflects is the importance of the \u201cintellectual woman\u201d in society and what one must abide by in order to be considered so. In order to fulfill this standard the protagonist overall intelligence is shown through the duties she performs. The last line of the text states \u201cbut what if the baker won\u2019t let me feel the bread?; you mean to say that after all you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker won\u2019t let near the bread?\u201d From the reader\u2019s perspective (assuming that they have experienced this pressure)one can interpret this last line as a sexual metaphor concerning a woman\u2019s overall intelligence\/womanhood. Essentially, If one is not good enough or clean enough then one \u201cshould not be part\u201d of the community. The reader can infer that the authoritative character is repressing the sexuality of the narrator. Essentially, limiting the narrators ability to express how they feel\/ even down to the thoughts of this character. Her thoughts are altered out of fear itself. There is a fear of society\u2019s standards and norms, alongside the fear of not being able to properly align with the social structure in which a woman of esteem should walk high and carry themselves a certain way. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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