Question

Read the passage from “The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica.” she is the Patroness of Exiles... who spends her days selling canned memories while listening to the Puerto Ricans complain that it would be cheaper to fly to San Juan than to buy a pound of Bustelo coffee here, and to Cubans perfecting their speech of a “glorious return” to Havana... to Mexicans who pass through, talking lyrically of dólares to be made in El Norte— The Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and Mexicans in the passage help to create the image that

Answer 1

Taken from the poem “The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica” by Judith Ortiz Cofer (1992), the Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and Mexicans in the passage help create the image of Latin America’s great diversity. Since the poem is about the life of immigrants that had left their country to search for a better future in the United States, the passage mentioned above describes a situation in which the owner of a deli hears immigrants from different countries of Latin America (Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Mexico) talking about their plans or their countries. Moreover, the author wrote many words in Spanish that shows the mix between the Spanish and the English language. Some of those words are “dólares” (dollars), “El Norte” (The North), “jamón y queso” (ham and cheese), among others.

Answer 2

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d Latin American culture is very diverse.

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