I've Got the Power!

Power gives people options. The power of knowing oneself gives a person a leg-up on those who don't, because they know what they can and can't do, what they want and don't want, and what they believe and don't believe. knowing those things about ourselves gives us options for what we want others to know and what we want for ourselves. With strength comes power. Physical strength opens up many other doors for what people can do. Internal strength is having control over our thoughts and emotions. Again, a very beneficial to have. Not only do people have power, but so does nature. In the novel, Power, the wind has the power of life, being everywhere, and physical strength, such as during a storm. It has the power to awe people, almost making it god-like, as it is in the novel. Mankind doesn't have control over the wind, thus giving wind the power. Most forms of nature are uncontrollable, so it might be fair to say that some aspects of nature have power over mankind, but we also use these resources to our advantage, giving us the power. Just another way to view power.

Judging a book based on its cover

The cover of Lucy foreshadows her character's personality. Througout the book, Lucy seems reserved and thoughtful, almost judgmental. She constantly asks Mariah, "How did you get to be this way". She also looks at the way the family interacts and judges them for that. She judges Mariah's friend as well as her own mother. Looking at the cover of the book, Lucy looks very introverted and disgusted with what's around her. Although she is topless, which displays how open she is sexually, the readers find that she on the whole isolates herself from others. Her hand placement makes the readers think that she is pushing away whomever gets too close. Even though she is new to the country, she judges her surroundings and overall seems unhappy with where she is and who she is surrounded by, yet she was just as unhappy with the same things back in her home country. By looking at the cover, Lucy looks thoughtful but unhappy, yet I think she feels like she is the lucky one because she finds so much unhappiness in others, that she doesn't quite realize it in herself.

Here's a good review of the book as a whole. http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Critique/review_fiction/lucy_by_jamaica_kincaid.html