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Silent Dancing Analysis

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Silent Dancing by Judith Ortiz Cofer Cofer feel that it is both comical and sad to watch silent dancing in a home movie because of the absurd movements of the persons included in the clip. It was funny watching their facial expressions get intense without sound. However, watching it also causes her sadness because she recalls the painful memories of her childhood. The voices from the home movie stir the memories of the author about growing up in two homes and in two cultures. They reveal the bitter part of her childhood in America. These voices help to make the use of the home movie in the essay make more sense because they represent the hardships that the author encountered. They confess the struggles of a Puerto Rican childhood in the American
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