In “Silent Dancing,” Cofer explores the personal, familial, and communal transformations that resulted from moving in the 1950s to Paterson, New Jersey---to “a huge tenement that had once housed Jewish families?(paragraph 2) and to a new community that emerged from the sprawling barrio that Puerto Ricans “overflowing from New york City” (paragraph 2) called home. Reread the essay carefully, and summarize the transformations that occurred in the life of the narrator, her family, and their larger Puerto Rican community.

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answer: age of the protagonists.

dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by james joyce, published in 1914. they tell the stories of the irish middle class in and around dublin in the early years of the 20th century.

joyce divides the collection into three sections dealing with childhood, adolescence and maturity. therefore, one pattern he uses to organize his stories is the age of the protagonists. the initial stories deal with children, and as the stories continue, they focus on progressively older people.