Cultural traditions. It demonstrates the way how a person lives in their own family. It can depict the discrimination within a community in which they face. Through dialect, repetition, and asyndeton, discrimination is faced in not only one but multiple people's’ lives. The dialect in the book portrays that people should not forget where they come from. People often forget where they come from, olvidado, “el olvido is a dangerous thing,” people drift into another culture and branch off from the culture they were born in (68). Cofer is saying that people should not forget who they are “to forget the climate of your birthplace,” even if it does not agree to the means of society. Either way, people are born the way they are. Representation. Her
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Throughout her book, it is a phase that is frequently referred. Mamá holds this phrase as a tradition since the family sits around her as she retells hers stories from years prior. Mainly, the storyteller of the family would frequently repeat that phrase by the end of a cuento. Being that, in Cofer’s family, they were encouraged to be storytellers to pass down to future generations. As a result, it turned out to be Cofer who continued the tradition but in written form. Furthermore, the phrase is widely recognized in the Spanish speaking culture as it is told by storytellers. On their way to Paterson, New Jersey, her family faced discrimination but not her father due to his light complexity. Her father proceeded to “convince him and his brother, a look-like of Mr. Shultz who helped in the store, that we were not the usual Puerto Rican family,” which explains that they segregated from Spanish speaking cultures (63). The norms of society are combining between the Puerto Rican and the Jewish, there is no longer segregation. Sometimes it takes a bit of convincing in order to have a successful
Throughout her book, it is a phase that is frequently referred. Mamá holds this phrase as a tradition since the family sits around her as she retells hers stories from years prior. Mainly, the storyteller of the family would frequently repeat that phrase by the end of a cuento. Being that, in Cofer’s family, they were encouraged to be storytellers to pass down to future generations. As a result, it turned out to be Cofer who continued the tradition but in written form. Furthermore, the phrase is widely recognized in the Spanish speaking culture as it is told by storytellers. On their way to Paterson, New Jersey, her family faced discrimination but not her father due to his light complexity. Her father proceeded to “convince him and his brother, a look-like of Mr. Shultz who helped in the store, that we were not the usual Puerto Rican family,” which explains that they segregated from Spanish speaking cultures (63). The norms of society are combining between the Puerto Rican and the Jewish, there is no longer segregation. Sometimes it takes a bit of convincing in order to have a successful