Set in the s and s, The Line of the Sun moves from a rural Puerto Rican village to a tough immigrant housing project in New Jersey, telling the story of a Hispanic family’s struggle to become part of a new culture without relinquishing the old. At the story’s center is Guzmán, an almost mythic figure whose adventures and exile, salvation and return leave him a broken man but preserve his place in /5(13). Set in the s and s, The Line of the Sun moves from a rural Puerto Rican village to a tough immigrant housing project in New Jersey, telling the story of a Hispanic family's struggle to become part of a new culture without relinquishing the old. At the story's center is Guzmán, an almost mythic figure whose adventures and exile, salvation and return leave him a broken man but preserve his place in Cited by: 3. The Line of the Sun by Judith Ortiz Cofer, is a novel based in the 's through the 's about story-telling. All the characters introduced in the novel, have some sort of tie or connection to the main narrator, Marisol. The book begins before Marisol is born, and is comprised of stories that have been told to Marisol throughout her life.4/5(1).
Judith Ortiz Cofer. Set in the s and s, The Line of the Sun moves from a rural Puerto Rican village to a tough immigrant housing project in New Jersey, telling the story of a Hispanic family's struggle to become part of a new culture without relinquishing the old. At the story's center is Guzmán, an almost mythic figure whose. Judith Ortiz Cofer (Febru - Decem) was an American author. Her critically acclaimed and award-winning work spans a range of literary genres including poetry, short stories, autobiography, essays, and young-adult fiction. The Line of the Sun. Exile and Authorship in Judith Ortiz Cofer's The Line of the Sun Kevin Concannon University of California, Irvine I. In one of the concluding scenes of The Line of the Sun, Judith Ortiz Cofer describes how Marisols family moves to a house in the New Jersey suburbs, leaving behind a tenement populated by other recent immigrants from Puerto Rico.
Poet Cofer's first novel explores Puerto Rican life, both on The Island and in El Building, a New Jersey tenement. In his Puerto Rican village, young Guzm†n is considered wild like the devil, but he's just alert and curious, seeking a different kind of love from his mother's harsh concern. Set in the s and s, The Line of the Sun moves from a rural Puerto Rican village to a tough immigrant housing project in New Jersey, telling the story of a Hispanic family's struggle to become part of a new culture without relinquishing the old. At the story's center is Guzmán, an almost mythic figure whose adventures and exile, salvation and return leave him a broken man but preserve his place in the heart and imagination of his niece, who is his secret biographer. Judith Ortiz Cofer. Set in the s and s, The Line of the Sun moves from a rural Puerto Rican village to a tough immigrant housing project in New Jersey, telling the story of a Hispanic family's struggle to become part of a new culture without relinquishing the old.
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