Use the following quotation as a springboard to write about identity as a theme: "it was on these rockers that my mother, her sisters, and my grandmother sat on these afternoons of my childhood to tell their stories, teaching each other, and my cousin and me, what it was like to be a woman, more specifically, a Puerto Rican woman."

Title Introdu ction BODY Concl usion Introduction and the definition of the place of events. The main message of the essay is vested in the body of the essay which consists of the saddening story of Maria La Loca. It also covers the advice to Laura through this story. It expresses Cofer's interest in her childhood. This part of the essay has the climax. The story and the essay conclude with the advice to Laura.