Stories Similar To Jamaica Kincaid's Life

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Kincaid likes to write stories similar to her own life. She has wrote many novels and books. She was born in the Caribbean. A lot of her stories are about people that experience similar things she has gone through. She also has written stories about people with similar ethnicity as her. Kincaid wrote in the modernism time period in 1970’s. Jamaica Kincaid likes to write stories similar to her life in the Caribbean because she likes telling people about her life. Jamaica Kincaid’s tone in her stories is often perceived as angry. Kincaid is angry with people in her past and the way things happened. She likes writing stories about her own life. Because she wants people to know how difficult her life was. Her tone is perceived as angry. She is

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