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    A Study Guide for Judith Ortiz Cofer's "Hour with Abuelo"
    A Study Guide for Judith Ortiz Cofer's "Hour with Abuelo"
    A Study Guide for Judith Ortiz Cofer's "Hour with Abuelo"
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    A Study Guide for Judith Ortiz Cofer's "Hour with Abuelo"

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    A Study Guide for Judith Ortiz Cofer's "Hour with Abuelo," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535824958
    A Study Guide for Judith Ortiz Cofer's "Hour with Abuelo"

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      A Study Guide for Judith Ortiz Cofer's "Hour with Abuelo" - Gale

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      An Hour with Abuelo

      Judith Ortiz Cofer

      1995

      Introduction

      Judith Ortiz Cofer's short story An Hour with Abuelo, is the story of Arturo's visit with his elderly grandfather in a nursing home near Paterson, New Jersey. Arturo is a teenage Puerto Rican American who is in a hurry to achieve everything he wants in life. Over the course of the story, he learns something about patience, life's obstacles, life's triumphs, and the value of his grandfather's experience. An Hour with Abuelo, like many of Cofer's stories, explores the divide between younger, American-born people of Puerto Rican descent and older, Puerto Rican-born adults living in America. Drawing on her own bilingual, bicultural childhood, Cofer imparts her characters with lifelike voices and wit.

      An Hour with Abuelo first appeared in Cofer's short-story collection An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio, published in 1995 by Orchard Publishing and also by Penguin in their Puffin Books series. In 2009, Scholastic reissued the collection. Upon its publication, An Island Like You was named an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults and the School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. The American Library Association also awarded the Pura Belpré Award to An Island Like You.

      Author Biography

      Cofer was born as Judith Ortiz on February 24, 1952, in Hormingueros, Puerto Rico, to Jésus Ortiz Lugo and Fanny Morot Ortiz. Her father was in the U.S. Navy and assigned to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He moved the family to Paterson, New Jersey, when Ortiz was a small child. This community forms the backdrop to many of her stories.

      Although the family lived in Paterson, Ortiz's mother took her children back to Puerto Rico for a portion of every year, and they would stay with Ortiz's grandmother. In an interview with Nikki Grimes, the writer recalled, For the first 15 years of my life, we moved back and forth from Paterson, New Jersey to the island, so I grew up truly bilingual and bicultural.

      Although Ortiz's mother valued her Puerto Rican heritage, her father believed that it was important that the family be fully integrated in to U.S. culture. Jody Sather and Lauren Curtright, in a biography appearing on the University of Minnesota's Voices from the Gap Web site, report that the author's father didn't want them to have the limited choices that he perceived himself to have been faced with as a boy coming into adulthood.

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