Kincaids essay/what it added to ideas of creative non fiction that are not so strong in the other readings

Kincaid's essay gives more in the way of a vivid depiction even to what the reader might consider to be insignificant moments in her life. I say that because it is shown in the first couple of lines when she says, " the dress i am wearing in this black and white photograph, taken when i was two years old, was a yellow dress made of cotton poplin" and then she goes in to the texture of the fabric and where it was first manufactured. later on in the essay she discusses how the shade of yellow in her dress was the same shade of yellow as boiled cornmeal and how her mother wanted her to eat yellow cornmeal because it was cheap and how her thought that foods that were colored yellow, green, or orange were rich in vitamins. These were moments in her childhood that are shown to the reader in the most vividly depicted way possible, after reading the essay I felt like I was a friend of hers during her childhood.