In the exposition of “American History”, the protagonist is introduced as a Puerto Rican immigrant who lives in a tenement known as El Building. It’s full of loud noises and music as the narrator states. It starts out as her recollection of the day President Kennedy was assassinated. She repeatedly states it’s a “cold, gray day” and goes on to describe how that day she was playing double dutch with the black girls in her grade in the playground of Public School Number 13.
The inciting incident is first shown to the reader when the other girls begin to tease Elena, mostly mocking her ethnicity, by calling her things like “skinny bones” and “pork chop”. The central conflict is shown through the bullying and how it deals with Elena’s internal
The inciting incident is first shown to the reader when the other girls begin to tease Elena, mostly mocking her ethnicity, by calling her things like “skinny bones” and “pork chop”. The central conflict is shown through the bullying and how it deals with Elena’s internal