She admires this girl in all aspects of her life. However, Annie later finds herself admiring and adoring a girl that she called the "Red Girl". She promises Gwen that she will always love her. She then falls in love with a girl by the name of Gwen. While her mother tries to teach her to become a lady, Annie is sent to a new school where she must prove herself intellectually and make new friends. She follows her everywhere, and is shocked and hurt when she learns that she must someday live in a different house from her mother. It covers issues as diverse as mother-daughter relationships, lesbianism, racism, clinical depression, poverty, education, and the struggle between medicine based on "scientific fact" and that based on "native superstitious know-how".Īnnie John, the protagonist of the book, starts out as a young girl who worships her mother. Annie John, a novel written by Jamaica Kincaid in 1985, details the growth of a girl in Antigua, an island in the Caribbean.
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