What Is The Relocation Between Silent Dancing By Judith Ortiz Cofer

Judith Ortiz Cofer, a cultural writer and storyteller, illustrates the stereotypes depicted through gender and race, most notable in her works such as Silent Dancing and The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry with use of Spanish to create the authenticity within her works.
Judith Ortiz Cofer grew up in many homes with a loving family in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico on February 24, 1952 to parents, Jesús Ortiz Lugo and J. M. Ortiz Cofer. Since her father was in the Navy, her family [mother and brother] moved to Paterson, New Jersey. Due to her father 's absence, she received support from Mamá, her grandmother and her mother. Although her mother could not adjust in New Jersey, they would move back and forth to their extended family. The relocation between

She is older than five when she begins retelling her story through the essays and sections of poetry. It is a mixture between an autobiography and fiction since not everything in her essays are accurately described. She adds a flavor of imagination in her essays and poetry. It identifies as sequence of events; although, there is no particular order in reading her book. In the story, it depicts the lives of Puerto Rican women through the use of periodic sentences, imagery, and one sentence

Men felt superior, “Hombres with the devil in their flesh who would come to a pueblo… never meaning to stay, only to have a good time and to seduce the women,” which made women feel inferior. Women were only used for a man’s pleasure. For that reason, they would not wed them. As generations progressed, they soon found an exception to wed, which considered the woman as the man’s property. Women were never looked as individuals if they got married. Women found control within themselves to not be recognized as only a man’s property, but that they have the opportunity to achieve much greater things than just being a housewife. The women found that their bodies shouldn’t be used for pleasure, but for greater achievements such as widening their education career. Worry, her uncle went missing. It affects the family’s lifestyle since her uncle did not land in the U.S. but somewhere unknown. Mamá, “went wild with worry” which is normal since it is her son (33). Her son is missing, while Mamá’s husband had premonitions of where their son could be located. Terror filled mamá with the “nightmares… she saw her son mistreated and worse,” which can be a mother’s worst fear (33). Mamá fears for the life of her son, the tone is fear and worry. In a Puerto Rican woman’s life, this is far one of her top priorities, her family. Family is one of the biggest priorities in a woman’s life, especially if they sense