Story Of My Body Judith Ortiz Cofer Summary

The story I chose to analyze was The Story of My Body by Judith Ortiz Cofer. This is my thesis: The “Story of My Body” by Judith Ortiz Cofer. Judith takes you on a journey of a Puerto Rican girl who battles the way people see her skin, color, size, and looks. Judith uses the girl’s point of view, diction from the Hispanic language, and metaphors to bring us into her thoughts and feelings in order to show us how Hispanic women are judged throughout different stages of their life. The evidence I used to support my essay was mostly from the text itself. I analyzed the authors’ words to bring it all together for the big picture. Trying to find secondary sources was actually a big struggle for me. I was not really able to find a good amount that supported my analysis for the piece. Many that I did find close …show more content…
The only thing that was difficult was finding secondary sources for my analysis. We were given multiple websites to search, but it just seemed my topic was not out there. I did feel like the essay kind of crept up on us, but we were given examples, which was very helpful. The assignment was explained well and the expectations were laid out in the prompt so I believe everything was handled properly. This literary analysis was useful in my opinion. Usually, you just read something to read and that is it. When doing an analysis though you analyze what the author is saying and ask yourself what he/she really means. It sends you to look for the big picture and have you wonder why the author wrote the story you are reading. I actually really liked digging into the authors’ words and bringing out my own feelings. When you look for meaning in a story you also look for meaning in what you got out of it as a reader. I learned a lot from reading the story and picking apart the authors word. It was a very useful assignment and the techniques I learned from it will be used in my near