Judith Ortiz Cofer

The author writes that when she was twelve, she used to love reading comic books. Her favorite was Supergirl, which used to influence her dreams. She would dream that she was Supergirl, running up...

In the story, the judge has ruled that, as part of his probation, Luis Cintron must provide his father free labor for six months. His job at his father's salvage yard is to wash and polish all the...

One of the themes in the short story "Catch the Moon" is that of loss and its effect on people. Jorge Cintron loses his wife to cancer, after which he spends his free time “polishing utensils that...

The appearance of Naomi Ramirez initiates Luis Cintron's change; this change is significant because it is an alteration in attitude on the part of Luis. Since he wishes to win her over, he drives...

There are only a few Spanish words and phrases besides the title in the English version of Judith Ortiz Cofer's "Volar,"* and half of them are terms of endearment. The mother calls her husband...

A thesis statement for Judith Ortiz Cofer’s article “The Myth of the Latin Women” could be expressed like this: The author is the product of a Latin American culture which is continually...

The author of the poem “Cold as Heaven” uses various literary devices, including imagery and allusion, to bring out the message of death. The author uses imagery in different instances within the...

The main theme of "Quinceanera" is a young girl's coming of age and her feelings of ambivalence about it. In the poem, the fifteen-year-old teenager mourns the loss of her childhood and is hesitant...

Imagery is the use of figurative language, and it is something that "paints" or illuminates an image in one's mind as he or she reads. It can be found in music, poetry, short stories, etc. The...

"Casa" is one of Ortiz Cofer's many "ensayos" in which she narrates and analyzes the social customs of Puerto Rican society as they occur in the 1950s. "Casa" appears inSilent Dancing,which is her...

On the face of it, the poem is about a Puerto Rican grandmother who's looking back over her life. But as the poem progresses, we discover a lot about the culture in which she's lived that life and...

“Quinceanera” by Judith Ortiz Cofer portrays a girl getting ready for her fifteen birthday celebration. In the Spanish culture, this celebration is important as a rite of passage from a girl to a...

Elena, a Puerto Rican American, endures a lot of prejudice because she attends a predominantly African American school, lives in a poorly-looking apartment block, and simply is not white. First,...

This story by Judith Ortiz Cofer can cover a lot of different themes. There's more than just one lesson in this piece, and there are many ways to analyze "Primary Lessons." One of the most...

Two choices that Elena makes are to become friends with Eugene and to continue with her plan to meet him for tutoring rather than go to church with her mother. The majority students in Elena's...

How about if I get you started, and you take it from there? We cannot write your assignment for you, but we can help. As you know, to write an acrostic poem, you must choose a word that is a theme,...