https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy please post a word that you found that Kincaid redefines and just a bit of evidence or your thought process! you rock! en-us 2018-12-12 05:44:26 UTC 2018-12-13 16:26:28 UTC hello@padlet.com mcgiehler https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/313714531 makes it into something more negative than the kind of neutral thing it was before
-shown next to words like ugly, cheap and vulgar
-use of banal makes the word ordinary even more ordinary]]> 2018-12-12 05:50:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/313714531 https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314326800 In the traditional sense, ugly is used to describe someone who isn't pretty based on societal standards, but in her essay Kincaid uses it more as a representation of being disrespectful towards a certain culture as a tourist or being sort of unaware of your differences. It can make the reader feel like she is talking to directly to them and make it more 'attacking' towards the audience.]]> 2018-12-13 16:17:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314326800 https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314326946 Kincaid uses the word "ugly" about ten times throughout her piece, frequently directing it towards the reader. This constant drilling of the word into the reader's mind almost causes it to lose its meaning. Rather than meaning unattractive or gross, it is just hateful. Kincaid is not directly calling YOU unattractive, but rather stating her, and the natives hatred for you.

]]> 2018-12-13 16:17:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314326946 https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314327027 - the idea that native people do NOT like you and make fun of you when they close their doors-makes tourists feel unwelcome]]> 2018-12-13 16:17:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314327027 slbuchner https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314327074 Kincaid makes the point that no matter where you are, there is always a tourist and always a native within the same area. No matter what you do, something is always going to be foreign to you. Customs, accents, traditions, and looks are different for every place. Even if you think you know how somebody should look or how they should sound, until you experience it and learn it will always be foreign.]]> 2018-12-13 16:17:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314327074 https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314327094 She redefines poor to be less related to economic status and more related to the lifestyle and availability of experiences
- "too poor to go anywhere"
- "a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression"
- "too poor to escape the reality of their lives"
- like a poverty of experiences and joy]]> 2018-12-13 16:17:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314327094 https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314327141 - makes it seem like being a native is boring and uninteresting
- makes a native into someone that you should pity ("they are too poor to escape the reality of their lives")
- basically says that you can't win because being a native is boring but being a tourist is ugly]]> 2018-12-13 16:18:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314327141 https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314327306 The feeling that Kincaid wants to instill upon the audience as they think about their past experiences with these types of situations]]> 2018-12-13 16:18:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314327306 https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314327309 - By affiliating the word ugly with tourist, Kincaid emphasizes how disliked they are by the natives
- gives a negative connotation and makes you feel attacked for being a tourist
"an ugly thing, that is what you are when you become a tourist, an ugly, empty thing, a stupid thing, a piece of rubbish pausing here and there to gaze at this and taste that.."]]> 2018-12-13 16:18:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314327309 https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314327419

]]> 2018-12-13 16:18:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314327419 https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314327481 Gives it a much more negative meaning, at the start of the essay there is a focus on saying that tourists are ugly people]]> 2018-12-13 16:18:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314327481 https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314327503 Kincaid defines this word as how one feels in a domestic sense, where they are wholesome in their own traditional ideals and cultures. Attractive to Kincaid is staying fixated in the beauty of your own Native self, and not crossing the disrespectful path of someone else's culture. 
-Is used to contrast with the overly repeated word "ugly", that serves as a demonstration for a foreigner crossing into Native land blindly. ]]> 2018-12-13 16:18:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314327503 https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314327536 -everyone comes from a different background and from there we are all strangers in some aspect of where we go in life. Also that everyone in different areas in someone are outcasts.

-“that behind their closed doors they laugh at your strangeness (you do not look the way they look)...]]> 2018-12-13 16:18:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314327536 https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314327686 Native 
Repeats this word and redefined what it means. “”So when the natives see you, the tourist, they envy you, they envy your ability to leave your own banality and boredom...”]]> 2018-12-13 16:19:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314327686 sproy https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314327736 shows you how the native people really feel about you. Most people only interact with natives in tourism industry who have to be polite to you. But they don't interact with the majority of the native population, many of whom are judging you.]]> 2018-12-13 16:19:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314327736 https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314327737 While it is commonly depicted as parts working together to achieve perfection, Kincaid understands that people will never truly achieve absolute agreement. She instead believes that once tourists become more sensitive and natives become more forgiving, people will become more sensitive to others and comprehend their point of view.]]> 2018-12-13 16:19:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314327737 https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314327783 Kincaid chooses to emphasize her point on perspective and show that every situation is what you make of it and the pleasure you seek to find. An indivual may be the center of their own world but they are not the center of the universe and their "banality and boredom" is merely based on an inability to search, to want for something more and break the patterns of consitency.

"They envy your ability to turn their
 own banality and boredon into a source of pleasure for yourself."]]> 2018-12-13 16:19:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314327783 https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314328234 she uses this to show and tell the audience what they should think about their past experiences with these tourist type situations ]]> 2018-12-13 16:19:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314328234 https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314329010 Kincaid shows how everyone can feel out of place at points. In every locations there is always a native and a tourist. ]]> 2018-12-13 16:21:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mcgiehler/e5m2jbnk5thy/wish/314329010