When it come to “The Dreamer” by Junot Diaz and “The Cruel Country” by Judith Ortiz Cofer one woman want to stay and the other wants to go. When comparing these essays you see the similarities and the difference in each of the women and their lives. From their struggles to their dreams from their past to their present. These women have similar backgrounds but they also have different life experiences that made them who they became. Which in turn helped to shape their children into who the would later become.
Judith Ortiz Cofer’s The Cruel Country, the author gives us a secondary look at her mother not merely from her perspective as her child but from a picture captured by an unknown photographer. She knows her mother, as all children no doubt do, and yet despite what intimate details
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As almost an answer to her prayers a forgotten photograph taken by an anonymous photographer captures the still image of the woman that has inspired her throughout her career.Cofer talks about her mother being in the United States and having a longing to return to her home of Puerto Rico which she misses very much. If she were to stay in the United States it seem that she would always be missing a part of herself and never be complete. Cofer also lets us know that her mother in The United State, because she is a Navy wife and is there with her husband, where she until his death.
In Junot Diaz’ The Dreamer Diaz regales us of his mother’s unending determination in the pursuit of that which should never exclude anyone who pursues it, education. In a manner that excites and inspires as well as depresses and upsets he speaks