This essay discusses the narrator, jamaciaJamacia Kincaid, who seems to be very passive on recoveryrecovering the instructions from her mother on how to live. however jamaciaHowever, Jamacia narrates her thoughts and moral belief of the time by her mother; for example in the paragraph, she uses the word repetition of the term slut'slut', to emphasize that her mother did not want her to develop a bad reputation.