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D) a person who takes care of someone and fusses over them
Answer: A. the mother wants to return to Puerto Rico, but the father is committed to staying in the United States.
Explanation:
Judith Ortiz Cofer's <em>Gravity</em> tells the story about Elenita, a girl from Puerto Rico that ends up living in an apartment in New Jersey.
Elenita's mother grew up in Puerto Rico, and misses her country. She is constantly talking about her family on the island and dreaming about reuniting with them. Her father, on the other hand, always has an excuse not to go to Puerto Rico. His favorite topic is the restaurant owned by Reyes. These different preferences of Elenita's parents lead to the conflict between them. Elenita will eventually learn that her father avoided seeing his wife's family, as he was not able to offer her middle-class life she was used to.
Her spirit bobbed like the whitecaps in the harbour as the boat pulled away from the black hull of the dolphin.
When a thin whimper from the child was silenced by a vicious cuff her anger boiled over
There had never been the slightest hint that he was courting Judith
The Caribbean is the sea which is between the West Indies, Central America, and the north coast of South America. Caribbean means belonging or relating to the Caribbean Sea and its islands, or to it's people.