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Although the expectations are confusing‚ girls have a natural aim to please and want to be accepted by society. These learned expectations are passed on from one generation to the next. “Virgins” by Danielle Evans and “The Story of My Body” by Judith Ortiz Cofer provide great examples of female expectations and how they shape girls’ lives. In both of the stories‚ the main characters are very concerned with their overall physical appearance and male approval. In “Virgins”‚ the main character plays the
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Marcus Mathew Ritchie English 2 Pre-AP 2nd 19 September 2013 American History Paper In the story‚ “American History” by Judith Ortiz Cofer‚ a girl named Elena lived in Paterson‚ New Jersey in an apartment known as El Building. Her life consists of her getting bullied at school‚ loving to read‚ staring at the old Jewish people’s house‚ and especially having a huge crush on a boy named Eugene. Throughout the whole story all Elena thinks about is Eugene and how she wants to be with him forever
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I. An Examination of Characters 1. Select 5 stories and then create a character analysis on each main and favorite character Dear Joaquin: In this letter‚ the depressive angst is almost surely palpable. Olga is hopelessly in love. It seems a man took her virginity‚ her purity‚ and left her in an anxious state of expectancy. A one night stand in which she gave her whole being to a fraud made her believe she knows what love is. She exhausts the word love saying “me‚ the woman who truly loves
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In the short story‚ Cofer‚ the narrator‚ recalls moments in her life in which she has been stereotyped as a Maria or Evita over the top stereotypical Latina “hot tamale‚” and how she dealt with those situations(Cofer). As a Latin American woman‚ she was brought up in a home in which the ideals and morals of “proper senoritas” was often conflicting with that which what
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Priscilla Smith Agundez AP English/ period 2 Precis “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria” Judith Ortiz Cofer wrote a classification essay in 1993 titled “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria” in which she reveals her feelings that she had towards all the racial instances she has been through resulting from her ethnicity. In the essay Cofer uses emotional appeal by writing: “But Maria had followed me to London…”‚she writes this to expose the audience
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in the late 1800’s. This is a short story about a magical Monkey’s Paw that can grant three wishes. They wished for 200 pounds‚ It ended up taking the son’s life. They wished him back to life‚ then back to the grave again. Aunty Misery is by Judith Ortiz Cofer‚ it takes place in a rural village in the past. This folktale is about Aunty Misery and her pear tree. She is granted a wish and makes her tree capture people who try to steal pears off of it. Senor Death ends up getting trapped in the tree
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The short stories “Catch the Moon” and “ The Bass the River and Sheila Mant‚” have many similarities. “Catch the Moon” is written by Judith Ortiz Cofer and is about Luis‚ a juvenile delinquent. Luis fights with his anger after his mothers death and usually finds himself in trouble. In “The Bass the River and Sheila Mant‚” the author‚ W.D. Wetherell‚ the narrator finds himself having to choose between his real love and an illusion of love. Luis struggles to find ways to deal with his mothers death
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social order‚ religion‚ nationality‚ and even gender. People stereotype due to many reasons. Some do it for fun‚ others do it to explain something about what they saw or heard‚ while some do it out of innocence or ignorance. In the essay by Judith Ortiz Cofer‚ The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria‚ the young man called the lady Maria but he did it out of the innocence. Although he didnt mean any harm‚ the Puerto Rican girl resented the stereotype. People think that all women
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Writing Exercise #2 The essay ‘Salvation” by Langston Hughes was the essay I connected with most. The religious aspect if it enticed me to read further. To me it was ironic that Hughes titled the essay “Salvation” when in fact it seemed young 12-year-old Hughes had become more lost than before going to the revival. I feel as if that Hughes wanted readers to take an important theme away from the essay; peer pressure from adults has a big impact on small children. Hughes style of writing is a unique
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