Arnold Knight
Professor Poole
English 111
20 April 2016
ALSO FAMILIAR
The dreamer and cruel country to different stories but also so familiar. Mrs. Diaz was an uneducated woman who was beaten by her mother, worked in the hot dirty fields in the Dominican Republic. Found herself dreaming of an education and becoming a nurse. Mrs. Cofer an immigrant mother who moved to the united states because she married a Navy man. Mrs. Cofer dreamed of moving back to Puerto Rico and really refused to put her beloved country behind her. Both stories are told by the mothers off spring who became authors. Both stories their kids describe a moment when they were staring at their mothers admiring their beauty while talking of how they have aged.

Mrs. Diaz was the kind of girl who grew up in a third world country was the type of girl who never made it off the campo(Diaz-128). She was often beaten by her mother the straight haired terror(Diaz-128). From helping out with the injured farmers she began to dreaming of getting of the campo by getting an education and becoming a nurse. Mrs. Cofer described her time in America as exilio (exile). The story portrays her mother as kind of being unhappy in America due to the fact of her missing Purto Rico the only reason she was here was because her husband was in the navy.

Diaz also describes his mother at a iron-willed and rarely speak figure that haunts(Diaz-128). He imagined her feeding the squirrels and yelling at them when she thought they were acting out. As for Cofer she describes a picture of his mother who is in her forties and just returned to the island of Puerto Rico who was posed in front of a painted canvas.

Works Cited
Cofer Ortiz, Judith. “The Cruel Country.” Bedford Reader. Ed. X.J. Kennedy et al. New York: Bedford St. Martin’s, 2014. 557-61. Print.
Diaz, Junot. “The Dreamer.” Bedford Reader. Ed. X.J. Kennedy