Urgenttt
the latina side of my identity was forged and closely nurtured by my family through our shared experiences and traditions.

–“a latina judge’s voice,”

sonia sotomayor

how do the words forged and nurtured affect the meaning of this passage? they reveal a lack of family involvement during the speaker’s childhood. they explain the speaker’s need for attention as a child. they reveal the importance of growing up as a latina. they show the strong connection between the speaker and her family.

Read the excerpt from ernest hemingway’s “soldier's home.” his father was in the real estate business and always wanted the car to be at his command when he required it to take clients out into the country to show them a piece of farm property. the car always stood outside the first national bank building where his father had an office on the second floor. now, after the war, it was still the same car. nothing was changed in the town except that the young girls had grown up. how does hemingway’s description of the town as unchanged impact the readers’ perception of krebs? it emphasizes that while the town has remained the same, krebs has changed. it illustrates that krebs despises the town he grew up in because it is boring. it demonstrates that krebs views himself as similar to the other soldiers from his town. it reveals that krebs is jealous of those who were able to stay in town and avoid the war.