Jamaica Kincaid grew up on the dependent island of Antigua. As a result of this, she had a very biased outlook on what England meant. She wrote about how some thought highly of the country, but she had other ideas regarding England. In the opening of the passage, Kincaid uses plenty of imagery to illustrate how England was first shown to her. It was displayed in such a way that it was made out to …showed first 75 words of 436 total…

…showed last 75 words of 436 total…however, Kincaid expresses her emotions while almost being sarcastic when she says, "This breakfast business was Made in England like almost everything else that surrounded us, the exceptions being the sea, the sky, and the air we breathed." This shows how oppressed she must have felt, with everything around being from England. Even though Kincaid didn't see the literal England, she saw the figurative England that everyone wanted so much to be a part of.