“Quinceanera” by Judith Ortiz Cofer “What shocked me that midnight was that I heard my own voice loud and clear,” Julia Alvarez mentioned. Julia Alvarez remembers the hard work and the amount of time spent in planning her quinceanera, just as if occurred yesterday. Alvarez illustrates her emotions and feeling through this outstanding poem. Starting with the title, “Quinceanera,” a reader can detect hidden meanings. In the Spanish language, the word quinceanera means that a …showed first 75 words of 569 total…

…showed last 75 words of 569 total…experience many of the same feelings and emotions, but the way they are displayed is what makes the girl become the woman that she is expected to be. By the tone of the story and the figurative language that is expressed, is what makes the reader feel and imagine what the writer is going through or what they have already experienced. Bibliography Cofer, Judith Ortiz. “Quinceanera” in Literature, 7th Ed. New York: Library Of Congress