Overshadowed, objectified, and devalued, in a sundry of circumstances, young girls are often born solely to serve and breed. The prose poem “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid, serves as an accurate depiction of the monotonous day to day life of a girl, as well as a bold wake up call to the ignorant people of society. The brilliant and seemingly neverending stream of so called “words of wisdom” are structured in a series of independent clauses, which is one of the most elusive yet obligatory grammatical devices. Kincaid purposely structures the text as a series of independent clauses and incorporates specific punctuation into her writing in order to express the girl’s conflicting inner thoughts regarding her mother and becoming a young woman in society.…