Judith Ortiz Cofer

This is a quotation taken from Katherine Mansfield’s short story ‘’The Voyage’’. The story is about a young girl called Fenella, after the death of her mother she went with her grandmother to move in her Grandparent’s house in Picton, which is inspired from Mansfield’s personal life when she had to move out from her home in Wellington, New Zealand to London, England. Mansfield uses imageries, metaphors, and the setting to convey the two main ideas of darkness and light and the transformation of…

which a person is discriminated against will often stay with them forever. In Judith Ortiz Cofer’s article, “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria”, she describes what happened on the day of her first public poetry reading in Miami on a boat-restaurant. As she walked with her notebook in her hand, a woman had asked her to come over to her table and ordered a cup of coffee assuming she was a waitress. Cofer states, “I know that it wasn’t an intentional act of cruelty, yet of…

The sequence of there life background all leads up. There was a president that got shot, can you guess who? “On the day president Kennedy was shot, my ninth grade class had been out in the fenced playground of a public school Number 13, (38 Judith Ortiz Cofer). What if the shooter accidentally hit one of…

Judith Ortiz Cofer is a talented writer who is native to Puerto Rico, a place in which she considers home even though she spent most of her life in the United States. She’s proud of her heritage and incorporates her multicultural back ground into a lot of her writing. Among the many writings she has created is an essay called “The Cruel Country”. This essay is about Judith finding a picture of her mother to display for the funeral home that captures and inspires her mind. The picture shows her…

love can make you do things that you wouldn’t think of doing normally. Feelings like this can make you question who you are as a person, and what sacrifices you will make for the person you are falling for. After reading “Catch the Moon” By Judith Ortiz Cofer, I saw that her point of the story was love can change a person in a good way, by making the person feel like they can improve their life and make better choices, not only for themselves but the person/people they love. Yet in “The Bass,…

When one decides to become aware in another’s eyes, it tends to portray ones inner self in various ways. In the short story Lessons of Love by Judith Ortiz Cofer indirect and direct characterization portrays how the narrator is self-conscious through her cultural background and status, physical body, and her thoughts. First of all, the narrator is characterized as a self-conscious person through her cultural background and status. As she thinks to herself about her secret lover, she says “I had,…

It is simply impossible to escape reality; however, that does not mean individuals can’t dream. Dreaming is one of the greatest adventures life can give a person. In the short story, “Volar” by Judith Ortiz Cofer, a family of Puerto Rican origins, who are now immigrants in America all fantasize about how their life would have been if their circumstances were different. The young girl in the book is finding a getaway for her self through the median of comic books and it’s all from her longing to…

Latin-American writer, Judith Ortiz Cofer, in her autobiographical essay, The Myth of the Latin Woman:/Just Met a Girl Named Maria, discusses the idea of discrimination and stereotypical remarks and actions that other have towards her. Cofer’s purpose is to communicate the idea that even now, Latina’s are still struggling to gain the respect that they deserve in today’s society. In her irate but respectful tone, she wants the readers to reflect on the idea that Latina women are just as powerful…

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…

of time, but it has negatively affected many people and how they live their lives. Judith Ortiz Cofer beautifully encompasses how Latin Women experience these stereotypes in an informative way by using specific rhetorical devices such as ethos, pathos and her own anecdotal evidence. Her main purpose is to expel her negative experiences that includes stereotyping, so others can understand the impact of it. Cofer uses her culture to illuminate her rawest emotions regarding the stereotypes she’s…