girl - by jamaica kincaid

Out of all of our short stories to choose from for this weeks assignment; I must say I like Girl the most. It was different and unique, strange and intense, intriguing and interesting. I've actually never read a short story in this fashion. Only separated by semi colons, no periods. It was a long story in the terms of it being a short story. The fact that it read like one long sentence also made it an easy read. One where I didn't want to stop reading at the pause of a semi colon, but instead I continued on reading looking for almost the point of the story. And it was intriguing when the point of the story came at the very end by way of question. At times in the reading I would find my mind multitasking by asking questions about where the story is taking me. Questions to try and find out information of where is our narrator? Where does she live? What's her culture? Religion? Race/Ethnicity? Is this information coming from mom, dad, an elder? Who is this telling her these life lessons and did they come out to her over a long expanded period of time? Or was it over a course of couple days, or hours even? This short story intrigued me with its difference that set it aside from other short stories I've read in the past.