Analysis of the Speaker in “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid The speaker in Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” is an unnamed mother figure who is giving advice and instructions to her daughter. The speaker is talking directly to her daughter,

Write a 150 word analysis that answers the following questions.
Who is the speaker?
Who is the speaker talking to?
What is the speaker’s purpose?
Speaker: “In writing, the speaker is the voice that speaks behind the scene. In fact, it is the narrative voice that speaks of a writer’s feelings or situation” (Literarydevices.net).
Works Cited: 
Literarydevices.net, 2016, literarydevices.net/speaker/. Accessed 10 July 2023.
**You must not use any information from outside sources or quote/cite from outside sources in your answer.
**If you choose to quote from the story, poem, or play, please use this as an opportunity to practice in-text MLA citation format.
To cite a direct quote in proper in-text MLA citation format, add the author’s last name and (if available) the page or line number in parentheses at the end of the quote.
Example: Within the work, the author notes that “she looked at the child in awe” (Blixton 60).
the link for the reading: 
“Girl,” by Jamaica Kincaid | The New Yorker or 
“Girl,” by Jamaica Kincaid | The New Yorker
I’m going to leave a few samples of my OWN writing so you can be familiar with how I write so you can get an idea of how I write so this assignment won’t look like I didn’t do it (THESE SAMPLES HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ASSIGNMENT I’M ASKING TO BE COMPLETED)

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