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Angie Cruz And Assata

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Angie Cruz’s Soledad
What do the different urban spaces in the book (the East Village) and (Washington
Heights) represent to Soledad?
Although East Village and Washington Heights represents two different things, it still
represents Soledad as a whole being. The past and the present , that is what it represents
to Soledad, the Washington Heights being the past and East Village being the present.
Soledad talks about Washington heights very negatively because it represents something
about her life that she doesn’t want to be part of, it reminded her of her traumatic
experiences, the relationship she has with her mother and how awful the kind of living
they have there. With all these being said, Washington Heights is something to be
considered a bad memory for her and East Village is considered to be her hope and her
silver lining from all the bad experiences she had. East village is everything opposite of
what she had, it serves as an escape of her awful life. She is someone new in this village,
she is an independent artist that no longer depends on her family and that she can already
live her life happily.
What are Soledad’s feelings towards her family and the neighborhood and how do
they change?
At first, we can say that her relationship and feelings towards her family and
neighborhood is unlikely to be the best. In the beginning she talks about them with some
sort of hatred and disgust since all she is saying is about negative things. She felt anger
and frustration and holds it within her until she became suffocated and decided to leave.
From this point, she barely visits her mother and because of this she killed her relationship
towards her mother. But then, everything changed when she knew that her mother was ill.
She felt bad and every resentment she felt towards her mother vanished when she saw her
mother in a coma state. She started to be there for her mother most of the time and she
started to finally understand all the hardships that her mother undergone and that she
decided to be there until her mom’s gets better.
Think about what changes we see in Soledad’s relationship with her family - especially
her mother. Has it changed and how? Highlight/underline key passages in the book
that show this and mark the page numbers in your notebook.
*just for your reference* the page is (223) ” Being next to my mother makes me want to
hear her voice”
According to this passage, Soledad started to feel guilt when her mother became ill but
she was not there when it happened, and when she finally gets home it is too late already,
her mom was in an emotional coma. She started to regret leaving them home and seeing
her mom made her want to hear her voice. But that being said, it does not only end in
hearing her voice, she also wants to her mom to tell her stories, to tell her how is she
doing, to just hear her mom say anything because it might seem like a small thing but
right now she already knew that it has a lot of impact to her.

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What tensions are there between old school Dominican culture and the different
strands of US culture?
Dominican culture and US culture has a lot of differences. One of which is that Dominican
being more strict and religious while US is more on being open minded. With these, there
are things that are not acceptable in the Dominican culture but is acceptable with the US
culture, for example, Soledad leaving her home. It is not accepted buy her family however
it is acceptable in the US culture to do this. On the other hand, there also things that
seems to be odd in the US culture seems to be normal in Dominican culture.
Read the last few passages of the conclusion
slowly and carefully.
What happens?
It is evident that in the conclusion, Soledad went back to her homeland together with her
mother and while on this trip she already appreciates Washington Heights and its own
culture and especially she already appreciates her mother more. With their new
relationship, it has helped them understand each other more and accepted her of who
she really is.
ASSATA
Assata’s poems: What do they add to the narrative? What insight do they give you
about Assata’s inner thoughts?
Assata’s inner thoughts is evident in all of her poems. In her poems, it teaches us that
there is a ray of light ans a silver lining in every dark situations. Every words she uses
reflects what she feels, with these being said, everything that she wanted to say verbally,
she put it into her poems that’s why all of her poems screams of her emotion.
What spaces/neighborhood does she move through? Note them and how each of
them either shapes the story and what it means to Assata.
In the book, there are a lot places she went through and with every place she experiences
hatred. One place would be her elementary school where she was introduced to the awful
word racism but then it also taught her the importance of self worth and self identity.
Another place would be the community Assata’s friend wherein she noticed and learned
that everyone is facing their problems as well and that they are fighting battles within
themselves as well. With all the places she has been, it has shaped her personality,
behavior, how she thinks and her being molded with the situations happening around her,
it has helped her easily adapt to new situations.
Keep track of major themes that emerge in the story as you read. Its a good idea to
mark examples of them in the text and make a small note in your notebook.
One major situations that impacted me would be how the cruel the world she lives in. It
talks about how she is being treated since she were young just because of the color of

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Angie Cruz’s Soledad ⚫ What do the different urban spaces in the book (the East Village) and (Washington Heights) represent to Soledad? Although East Village and Washington Heights represents two different things, it still represents Soledad as a whole being. The past and the present , that is what it represents to Soledad, the Washington Heights being the past and East Village being the present. Soledad talks about Washington heights very negatively because it represents something about her life that she doesn’t want to be part of, it reminded her of her traumatic experiences, the relationship she has with her mother and how awful the kind of living they have there. With all these being said, Washington Heights is something to be considered a bad memory for her and East Village is considered to be her hope and her silver lining from all the bad experiences she had. East village ...
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