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American Me - Term Papers

American Me

A) Read “American Me” by Maria Miranda-Maloney.

B) The character in “American Me” is a Hispanic male that crossed the border into the United States. Miranda-Maloney uses many factors to develop her character. We know the character in her poem is Hispanic, as she uses racial aspects within her poem when her character refers to himself as a “watermelon-eating Mexicano”, he refers to a trolley driver as a “gringo”, and he kissed our “white land…for a piece of the dream”. Miranda-Maloney uses gender and regional aspects to develop the character, as well. She writes that the trolley driver calls him “mister”, and she writes that he “crossed the bridge”, and then refers to him moving to ...

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Added: 3/15/2012 07:45:16 AM
Submitted By: jadams83
Category: Poetry & Poets
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