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An Analysis Of Jamaica Kincaid's Essay 'Sowers And Reapers'

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In the essay “Sowers and Reapers,” Jamaica Kincaid has a bitter attitude for both speeches “the Holocaust garden” and for the gardens on the Middleton Place Plantation. Chicago is recreating the garden of Auschwitz that was made by prisoners. The garden was made by prisoners who were facing death. It was built as a quadripartite garden. This way of gardening is quite common. Kincaid said that her favorite garden is the Garden of Eden. The recreation of the garden in Auschwitz was the Holocaust garden. This made Kincaid not want to talk about the Garden of Eden because of the German roots in Auschwitz. This creates a bitter thought for Kincaid. For the gardens on the Middleton Place Plantation she describes how the garden had individual spots for a specific flower. She thought the garden was beautiful. Kincaid experiences awfulness because slaves made the gardens. The water from the river was used to flood the rice fields. Their rice-cultivation skills were used to maintain the plantation.
Kincaid has a guilty attitude toward the construction of her wall in her own garden. She called Ron Pembroke, the maker of the most excellent landscapes in …show more content…

I do not know if that is the ideal time to build a wall, but I was so happy to see my walls being made that I became very possessive of the time spent on them and wanted the four men to be building only my walls. I didn’t begrudge them lunchtime or time taken to smoke a cigarette, but why did they have to stop working when the day was at an end, and why did the day have to come to an end, for that matter? How I loved to watch those men work, especially the man named Jared Clawson. (Kincaid 177).
Kincaid demonstrates her guilt by saying that she didn’t want to take away the workers breaks to continue working on her walls. She questioned the amount of time spent on them. She admits to herself that she was being possessive and wanted only those men to build her

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