Miguel street

As a child my mother always told me you are the company that you keep. I never really understood that until I grew up and saw how people acted when they were together. I am going to show how the company they kept affected Naipaul and Kincaid’s main characters, leading up to their deciding to leave their homes; as well as how the British migration to Antigua affected the Antiguans.

In the novel “Miguel Street” by VS Naipaul, the narrator befriends lots of people on Miguel Street. Most of the people on Miguel Street had a negative influence on the narrator, except his mother and B. Wordsworth. The narrator was surrounded by alcoholism, abuse and prostitution on almost a daily basis. This is not to say that there were no other

George, in my personal opinion, was the craziest one of the bunch. He beat his family and made a side show of it. It seemed like every man on Miguel Street condoned spousal abuse, but George took it to another level. He put his children on trial in from of various people on the street. He would read out what they did and then he would read out their sentence.

B. Wordsworth was a positive influence on the narrator. He showed him things he had never seen before. They read, and talked about the gre

 
 

Both Gwen and the Red Girl share only one similarity, which is their friendship with Annie. Gwen is an elegant and simple child while the Red Girl is rambunctious and rebellious. Gwen is more like Annie when she was younger, when she had her mother’s approval. The Red Girl is more like Annie wants to be or is becoming, more independent and separated from her mother.

Annie met her first best friend, Gwen, at school. Gwen always had her hair combed, neat clothes, and polished shoes. Gwen didn’t climb trees like a boy and play marbles. She and Annie met every morning to walk to school together and share secrets. Her mother approved of their relationship. Annie forgot about her problems when she was with Gwen. Gwen and Annie were inseparable, they would walk to school everyday, and Annie longed for this.

When Annie turned 18 she also left home, but they weren’t for the same reasons that the narrator in Miguel Street left home. Annie left home to get a way from her mother. I believe that if she would have never befriended the Red Girl her relationship with her mother would have still be somewhat close and maybe she would have stayed or at least waited a little before she left.

In the final chapter the narrator who is now 18,

e greatest poem ever written. B. Wordsworth gave him a sense of hope. He made him think that maybe there was something else out there that maybe everything wasn’t like Miguel Street. It really hurt the narrator when Wordsworth died, because he feared that the greatest poem would still cease to exist. B. Wordsworth told the narrator that there was never really a greatest poem. I think he told him that so he would have to be sad about both losing him and never



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