28 pages 56 minutes read

Quiara Alegría Hudes

Water By The Spoonful

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2012

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Essay Topics

1.

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?

3.

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?