28 pages 56 minutes read

Quiara Alegría Hudes

Water By The Spoonful

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2012

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Essay Topics

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What is the significance of the Ghost’s reappearance throughout the play? Does the question the Ghost asks have any importance?

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What role does the Ortiz family’s Puerto Rican heritage play in the story? How does Hudes weave issues of race/ethnicity throughout the play?

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Choose one character and describe how they practice mothering or taking care of another character. How does the practice of mothering impact the lives of both the characters involved?

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