The Myth Of The Latina Woman Analysis

Judith Ortiz Cofer: The Myth of the Latina Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria The Myth of the Latina Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria by Judith Ortiz Cofer is a story covering Latina Women in America. Judith is from Puerto Rico and for much of the passage, discusses her life as a Latina and how she would be judged for doing common people activity. She would be ridiculed for her clothes and labeled illegal or a prostitute. Even after this, she would not let it get to her as she believes Latina women are works of God. Cofer’s purpose for writing this essay was to show that Latina women are victimized even though “they make good domestics” (Cofer). She also explicitly states that her “personal goal in [her] public life is to try to replace the old persuasive stereotypes and myths about Latinas with a much more interesting set of realities”

Afterwards, he was sent to a prison after being kicked out of the 8th grade, thus switching schools to the Norfolk Prison Colony. Before he learned to become literate, Malcolm felt severely idiotic and used this feeling of self-anguish to fuel his need for knowledge. He described learning by himself as being difficult yet since Malcolm was self-driven, this did not stop him. An example of this is mentioned when he says “In my slow, painstaking, ragged handwriting, I copied into my tablet everything printed on that first page, down to the punctuation marks” (Malcolm X). Throughout his time, he goes on to reading many African-American stories on slaves teaching themselves and one another how to write and read and since Malcolm was self-taught, he related on a personal level to them. He would go on to say that he “preferred reading in the total isolation of [his] own room” which shows that he is an independent thinker. With this thinking, Malcolm X would go on to become an extremely influential civil rights