Judith Ortiz Cofer: Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood

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The longest and most elaborate example Cofer uses is that of María La Loca. Explain the significance of this example, and identify and explain the significance of another example that Cofer includes.

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Cofer uses a number of Spanish words and phrases in “Casa,” some of which she translates and others of which she leaves untranslated. What is the effect of these Spanish words and phrases? What would be gained or lost if they had been omitted?

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Use the following quotation as a springboard to write about identity as a theme in “Casa”: “It was on these rockers that my mother, her sisters, and my grandmother sat on these afternoons of my childhood to tell their stories, teaching each other, and my cousin and me, what it was like to be a woman, more specifically, a Puerto Rican woman.”

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