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“I FELL IN LOVE OR MY HORMONES
AWAKENED”By Judith Ortiz Cofer
Type of Essay
•Narrative
Informal or Formal
• Informal
•Content
• Sentence structure
•Formal
•Word choice
Characterization
•Direct
• “a beautiful new student named Sophia, a recent Polish
immigrant, whose English was still practically unintelligible, but
whose features, classically perfect without a trace of makeup,
enthralled us. Everyone talked about her gold hair cascading
past her waist, and her voice which could carry a note right up
to heaven in choir” (484).
• “our best basketball player, a tall, red-haired senior” (484)
Figurative Language
• Simile
• “He looked like a young Marlon Brando” (482).
• “I felt like a pilgrim waiting for a glimpse of Mecca” (483)
• “Dressed in a white outfit like a surgeon” (483)
• “Stood there like an idiot” (483)
• “we labored like frantic Roman slaves” (483)
• “authentic in sheets of material that folded over their bodies like the garments on a statue by Michelangelo” (484)
• “glittered like a statue” (484)
• “like the phantom lover” (485)
• “my cells were tuning up like musicians” (485)
• “what seemed like an eternity” (486)
• Metaphor
• “the cite of Paterson becoming a concrete oven” (483)
Figurative Language
•Allusions
•Marlon Brando
Figurative Language
•Allusions
•Mecca
Figurative Language
•Allusions
•Michelangelo Statues
Figurative Language
•Allusions
• Fates
The Fates also called the Moirae, were 3 sisters who were in charge of
the destiny of every living thing in Greece. Even though they were in
charge of all LIVING things they lived in the underworld.
Clotho represented the present. She spun the thread of life onto her
spindle. Clotho was in charge of choosing when some one would be
born ,when one was born she was called upon during the last month
of pregnancy (to help give life to the unborn child).
Lachesis represented the past. She measured the thread of life and
determined how long ones life should be. She also helped the dead
choose their next lives by assigning them their next life (or lot). It was
said that within 3 days of a child being born that Lachesis and her
sisters would arrive to decide the child's fate.
Atropos represented the future. She choose when and how one would
die by cutting the thread of life with her scissors.
Figurative Language
•Allusions
•Nubian slaves
Slavery in Sudan began in ancient times, and
recently had a resurgence during the 1983 to 2005
Second Sudanese Civil War. During the Trans-
Saharan slave trade, many Nilotic peoples from
the lower Nile Valley were purchased as slaves
and brought to work elsewhere in North Africa and
the Orient by Nubians, Egyptians, Berbers and
Arabs.
Figurative Language
• Imagery
• “sat across the room from me looking supremely bored. I watched his every move, taking him in
gluttonously. I relished the shadow of his eyelashes on his ruddy cheeks, his pouty lips smirking
sarcastically at the ridiculous sight of our little play. Once he slumped down on his chair, and
our sergeant-at-arms nun came over and tapped him sharply on his shoulder. He drew himself
up slowly, with disdain” (484).
• Irony
• You don’t find true love at 14
• “the few times I saw him in the hallway, he was always rushing away” (486). The reality “that the
kiss was nothing but a little trophy for his ego” finally hit the protagonist(486).
Figurative Language
• Idiom
• “hoping to see my prince” (483)
• “I could have died” (483)
• “her voice which could carry a note right up to heaven in choir” (484).
• “my body was changing right there” (485)
• Oxymoron
• “sweet agony” (483)
• Personification
• “adulation leaves a scent” (483)
• “killing power of those dark pupils” (485).
• “my heart knocked” (485)
• Foreshadowing
• “my father…in his phosphorescent white, Navy uniform” (485).
Humor
• “my mother smoked her L&M’s with so little enthusiasm
that I thought (God, no!) that she might be cutting
down on her smoking or maybe even giving up the
habit. At this crucial time” (483)!
• “mimeographed handouts were the school-day buzz
that the new Xerox generation of kids is missing out on”
(483).
Theme
• Jabs at society
• “physical beauty qualified them for the starring roles” (484)
• Jabs at human nature
• “I must have been my worse critic, self-conscious as I was” (484)
• Life Lesson
• “the object is not always to win, but most times simply to keep your opponent (synonymous at
times with ‘the loved one’) guessing” (486)
• Lessons on love
• “I learned to make myself visible and to relish the little battles required to win the greatest prize
of all” (486)
• “if love were easy, life would be too simple” (486)
Setting/Mood
• Setting during kiss- dark hallway-> mood before kiss- suspense