Original Interpretation

Think about Jamil Jan Kochais and Jamaica Kincaids respective stories, and think about your own experiences in the kinds of situations and relationships presented in the stories.

Choose either authors story as your focus text for this assignment.

Return to your notes on your focus text and develop your notes further: examine the storys plot, narration and point of view, and characters.

Then think and write in your notes still about how at least one situation or relationship presented in the focus text reflects a situation or relationship in your own life. The situation or relationship in your life should be somewhat similar to the one you have chosen from the story, but it does not have to be the same or nearly the same. You want to choose something that another person would be likely to recognize as similar.

Identify and think about the similarities and differences between what your focus text presents and what you have experienced.