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ESSAY 1:
In Accawi’s “The Telephone,” the author’s nostalgic, personal and reflective tone suggests that
though the telephone destroyed his village, Accawi’s personal opportunities opened up, so that
his message to the reader is really more about how the village was separated and timeless from
the outside world because of modernization, than the telephone’s arrival and Magdaluna’s
destruction.
Essay 2:
In Ortiz-Cofer’s “Silent Dancing,” the author’s scary, informal, patriotic, and nostalgic tone
suggests that the sadness Ortiz experiences through the difficulties of adaptation while growing
up in New Jersey and throughout childhood, is really more about his family encounter with
racism, his cousin’s abortion and staying true to one’s culture.
Essay 3:
In Danticat’s “Westbury Court,” the author’s scary, reflective, and guilty tone suggests that
though there was fire that occurred in Danticat’s apartment complex, Danticat’s experience of the
fire made her to start noticing the violence and other acts that took place near her house, so that
her message to the reader is really more about her struggle of realizing that her home is not what
she saw it as throughout her childhood, and her struggle of living in poverty at Westbury Court,
than the fire which occurred there.