The correct answer to this open question is the following.
You did not include any reference for this question: text, context, excerpt, name of the story, or the name of the author.
However, doing some deep research, we can comment on the following.
First, you are referring to the story of Jamaica Kincaid, the name Antiguan author Elaine Porter Richardson used to write her story.
The name of the story is "Island Morning."
Kincaid's childhood experiences in Antigua have influenced her perspective on living in a big city in that she had a different perspective of how life was in the beautiful and quiet of Antigua, compared with the agitated and crowded life in New York City.
One example taken directly from the "Island Morning" text is: <em>"Every morning—workday, Saturday, or Sunday—the whole island was alive by six o’clock. People got up early on weekdays to go to work or to school; they got up early on Saturday to go to market; and they got up early on Sunday to go to church."</em>
That scenario was an agitated day on the island. So when she arrived in New York, she could understand the big differences or the two distinct places.
The effect the narrative style have on the reader is that it's just a calm and a normal day. It also shows that it might be a happy story.
Answer:
civil disobedience:
Explanation:
This idea of rightful disobedience has inspired protests in various degrees and kinds in America ever since the Boston Tea Party, and it continues to inspire such actions even to the present day. Beginning in the mid-20th century, however, a significant modification of the idea has gained legitimacy and prestige in this country and around the world, as many Americans and others have become persuaded that organized disobedience can be not only rightful and, in a higher sense, lawful, but also civil—it can effect a popular uprising against injustice even as it remains in conformity with the requirements of civility and social stability.3
See Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall, A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000); and Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan, Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011).
Such actions have become increasingly normalized in post-1960s America, as groups protesting a wide range of issues—including, in a partial list, nuclear armaments, abortion, environmental policy, and more recently, alleged misdeeds in the financial-services industry, immigration policy, and alleged police misconduct—have laid claim to the method of civil disobedience.
