Kincaid’s “Girl” Is a Function of Literature

I believe that any kind of writing is literature, weather it be a newspaper article, song lyrics, poems, or free writing. To me literature is anything that entertains, educates, or informs the reader or audience. Literature can share a person’s perspective or opinions on certain things with many people. It can also inspire change and can bring up questions or problems with possible solutions. I believe any kind of writing serves as a function of literature because it entertains the reader, and every piece of writing serves as entertainment, if it didn’t, nobody would be reading it in the first place. Literature to me is any form of writing, it does not matter if it is a seven hundred page novel or a poem consisting of two lines, if it entertains or informs I believe it is literature. Some may think that a piece of literature has to be a minimum amount of words or must be a certain genre. When our class read Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl”, some people did not believe that piec...