The correct answer is C) the Green taffeta dress and the tie-dyed T-shirts and bell-bottom.
The two details from Judith Ortiz Cofer’s “Gravity” that symbolizes the tension between Puerto Rican and American culture are the Green taffeta dress and the tie-dyed T-shirts and bell-bottoms.
Judith Ortiz Cofer was a Puerto Rican writer that moved to New Jersey when his father was in the military. She graduated from Augusta College. She wrote poetry and creative nonfiction. In her work “Gravity”, Ortiz Cofer refers to the difficulties of being a Puerto Rican living in the United States. For instance, the two details from Judith Ortiz Cofer’s “Gravity” that symbolizes the tension between Puerto Rican and American culture are the Green taffeta dress and the tie-dyed T-shirts and bell-bottoms.
The other options of the question were, a) the headband with Navajo designs and Elenita´s waist-lonh hair, b) Elenita´s classmate Gerald and her teacher, and d) music by Little Richard and the Beatles.
