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Set in a tiny sewing factory in East L.A., this is the outrageously funny story of five full-figured Mexican-American women who are racing to meet nearly impossible production deadlines in order to keep their tiny factory from going under. It deals with a large list of issues, but the connection women have with one another is the most profound.
The story was all right and I had a nice enough time reading it, but the story really didn’t make the messages very interesting and the scene at the end seemed to be a monologue from the screenwriter instead of the character who said it.

Ambitious and bright, Ana yearns to go to college, but does not have the money. It's important for a woman to feel good in her clothes.
Real Women Have Curves is a stage play by Josefina López and is set in a tiny sewing factory in East Los Angeles in September 1987. This book is apart of my approved reading list for high school students because it allows students to analyze the main character Ana and her choices in life. On the way to the store we … Greek Wedding made more money, but Real Women--which is just as funny--makes a lot more sense. I don't enjoy reading plays so if it had been written as a story I might have enjoyed the book more. Say something. My parents had warned me not to tell anyone I didn~t have "papersu and to be careful walking the streets. And I never talk about that because I refuse to let people know that I get sad because when a man don't answer my calls. I read the script they use for the stage productions and I liked how everything happened in the sweatshop and within a matter of days. I quickly turned to my friend and tried to "act white." Set in the vibrant environs of East Los Angeles, with a breakthrough performance by Latina newcomer America Ferrera, this comedic drama takes a familiar subject--a bright teenager struggling to define her identity--and turns it into an authentic celebration of feminine empowerment. 0000001840 00000 n REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES Victory Gardens Theater Ana, a young Latin American working in her sister's small factory, dreams about going to college to become a writer. It's more natural. Lopez has such a distinct voice as a playwright, highlighting the Chicana experience from a feminist, anti-machismo perspective.

Estela, I always have to do it.

I tried eating food that would increase my weight, but I only ended up putting fat around my stomach. Ana's here, Ama. I could really make a song of hurt, because I've been hurt by a lot of men.

It gives students an opportunity to write a detailed paper that either supports or disapproves of Ana's choice to attend college. "They, like me, couldn't believe that after hiding and being persecuted for so long they were finally going to have the freedom to live and work in this country." It is a hoot! In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us. When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. The action follows the course of a week at the factory, as the women talk about their lives, loves and deepest desires while attempting to meet impossible production deadlines.Within that week at the factory, the woman face many challenges such as la migra, troubles with their husbands and other male characters mentioned in the play, judgement from other characters, as well as yearning for dreams that do not seem possible to fulfill.


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