Annie John - Connections To Other Works

Connections To Other Works

There are clear echoes to themes and events from Kincaid’s stories Lucy and My Brother. My Brother is a non-fiction story, yet Annie John has some of the same events and facts placed in her own family as if Annie was Kincaid when she was younger. In My Brother, Kincaid's father had to walk after he ate because he had a bad digestive tract and heart, their family ate fish, bread, and butter, a six year old died in her mother’s arm going over the same bridge that her father had recently walked on after eating, and the character of Miss Charlotte dies in both books. Lucy can be cited as a continuation of Annie John being that Annie John has moved off of her Caribbean island of Antigua and is starting a new life in England, even though Lucy is in America, because hypothetically Annie John will have to learn how to adjust to England. Jan Hall writes “the themes of Annie John, Jamaica Kincaid’s first novel are continued in Lucy (1990), a novel about a young woman’s experiences after leaving her Caribbean island.”