Read this excerpt from "Gravity" by Judith Ortiz Cofer: I could never ask any of my friends over to our apartment. They would ha
ve suffered culture shock. So I divided myself into two people—actually three, if you counted the after-school hippie version as a separate identity. It was not always easy to shuffle out of my visionary self and into the binding coat of propriety the Puerto Rican girl was supposed to wear, although my parents were more understanding than others in our barrio. Which of the main character's traits does the passage most clearly reveal?
The realist movement was a result the exotic influence of Romanticism which led the common issues about the people and their problems and suffering which lay hidden behind the bars. The movement focused on the daily lives of the people which was based on direct observations about the modern world.
