Brown Girl Dreaming

Identify one example of a private thought or feeling Woodson shares in her memoir. (b) Explain how the use of first-person point of view allows her to share this detail.

Identify one example of a private thought or feeling Woodson shares in her memoir. (b) Explain how the use of first-person point of view allows her to share this detail.

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In the poem "the garden" (48-9), Woodson writes "Each spring/ the dark Nicholtown dirt is filled/ with the promise/ of what the earth can give back to you/ if you work the land" (48)

Jacqueline Woodson tells her memoir “Brown Girl Dreaming” from the first-person, limited-omniscient, present-tense point of view of herself as a child. She does this for several reasons. First and foremost, the memoir being told is Jacqueline’s, and there is no better person to tell her childhood story than herself. Second, this allows Jacqueline to communicate intimate thoughts, ideas, and feelings with the reader directly, allowing them to see and feel things as she did. It also allows readers a sort of intimacy as if the story was being told by one friend to another. The limited-omniscient aspect lends itself to Jacqueline telling the story as her child-self in present-tense, and not knowing everything going on in the world around her, but having vague ideas or inclinations about events and circumstances beyond her control.

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