Literary Analysis

LIERARY ANALYSIS
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Focus: “American History” by Judith Ortiz Cofer


TITLE: a) “American History”
b) I think the significant meaning of the title “American History” is the full name “American History”, because the time frame in which the story is set in, is when President Kennedy was shot and killed which is in American History. It was also in the time when it was hard for immigrants. The lived in crowded buildings in the city.

AUTHOR: a) Judith Ortiz Cofer
b) Judith Ortiz Cofer was born in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico, she came
to the United States as a young girl after her father joined the U.S.
Navy. When Ortiz Cofer was taught Spanish first and then taught
English. Ortiz has won such honors as a 1989 National Endowment for
The Arts fel...