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hi this is english assignment should be done in 300 words please answer as soon as possible TASK #3 Read attentively and analyse the passage

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TASK #3 Read attentively and analyse the passage from Jamaica Kincaid's Anne John provided below. Comment on relevant content and details of the passage, particularly its imagery, symbolism, and metaphors. Discuss how the passage fits thematically into the novella as a whole. Outside me, the word "Brownie" hung just before my eyes. Inside me, the black thing that was lodged in my head grew even more leaden. A part of the black thing broke away, as if it had been dropped to the ground, and a small yellow light took its place. Inside the yellow light, I was a Brownie, a small toy Brownie. It was me, all right, but made small. In truth, I belonged to the First Division troop of Brownies, which meant that in parades my troop marched ahead of all the other Brownie troops. A woman named Miss Herbert was our leader. She was a cashier in the hardware-and-lumber department of a store called George W. Bennet Bryson & Sons, and whenever I accompanied my father to that store, where he sometimes bought supplies, she would wait on us. I would curtsy to her in the special way that I was supposed to curtsy to anyone whom my parents had made a kind of guardian for me in their absence, and she would acknowledge me, though in a sort of gruff way, to show that even thought I was a good Brownie, who won many citations for good deeds, I was not particularly in with her. She always said she respected and liked us all equally, and I have to say that that attitude didn't go down well with me, accustomed as I was to being singled out and held up in a special way. Our troop was divided into four groups of seven girls each: elves, pixies, fairies, and gnomes. I was an elf, so I wore an emblem of a mischievous, dancing elf just above the left breast pocket of my uniform On my sleeves and on my shoulders, I wore all sorts of stripes and other emblems and badges to show that I had excelled in one thing or another. On our yellow ties we wore a brass badge in the shape of a four-leaf clover. We began our meetings with the whole troop standing in the yard of the Methodist church, forming a circle around flagpole, our eyes following the Union Jack as it was raised up, then we swore allegiance to our country, by which was meant England. For an hour and a half we did all sorts of Brownie things, then we gathered again around the flagpole to lower the flag and swear allegiance. Just before we parted, we crouched down with our hands on our shoulders, two fingers pointing up and we said in unison, "Tu-whoo, tu-whit, tu-whoo." in imitation of the wise old owl that was the patron of our troop, and it wished for us that as we grew old, we would grow wise also (114-116)

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