Many people do not realize what poverty does to people. J.K. Rowling described it in 2008 as this: “Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships” (Rowling). The underlying meaning revealed by setting in “Volar” written by Judith Ortiz Cofer centers around the poverty that a family of immigrants deals with while trying to survive. “Volar” symbolizes the struggles of poverty through it’s vague description of setting.
“Volar” describes the setting through the experiences that the characters undergo. As a result, the setting is described indirectly through the characters accounts. An example of this is how the daughter described her surroundings when she woke up from one of her dreams