One day, she shares a personal essay about her mother that almost brings the other students to tears. One day, Annie catches her mother and father making love, which disturbs her because she feels that her relationship with them has changed beyond repair.Īnnie begins attending a new school where she is the brightest girl in the class. When her mother finds out, she treats Annie coldly. She is kicked out of an etiquette class her mother sends her to and then lies about it. This makes Annie feel resentful and she begins to misbehave. As Annie grows older, her mother suggests that she will one day have to move out and start her own life. Though they are not married, her mother and father are committed to each other and affectionate. When she is still young, Annie is close to her parents.

Her mother punishes her, but still kisses her goodnight before putting her to bed. One day, Annie is late coming home because she was watching a funeral. They share stories about family members they have lost and speculate about what happens after death. Annie tells the other children at school about what she has seen, and gradually, they all become interested in the topic. She often sneaks into the funerals and memorial services to watch the mourners, occasionally staring at the bodies in their coffins for a long time. The house is near a cemetery, and as Annie watches funeral processions come and go, she becomes obsessed with death. The story begins when Annie John is ten years old and temporarily living with her mother outside of town. The story of Annie John is continued with another main character in Kincaid’s later novel Lucy. The novel is semi-autobiographical, containing a number of the same themes and events that appear in Kincaid’s non-fiction story My Brother. Urn:isbn:006059392X Republisher_operator Scandate 20120106025702 Scanner John is a 1985 novel by Jamaica Kincaid about a girl growing up on the island of Antigua. OL15853955W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 88.41 Pages 166 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0060593938

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