Instructions Contained within Esmeralda Santiago’s title of her memoir When I Wa

Instructions
Contained within Esmeralda Santiago’s title of her memoir When I Was Puerto Rican resides the narrator’s struggle with her identity, or the way that she sees herself. For Marta Vizcaya Echano, identity is a renegotiation that involves the “depiction of various communities …, the accuracy and contentiousness of which will depend on the reader’s own ideological positionings” (112).
Carefully consider Santiago’s depiction of her young narrator as she wrestles with her identity in her ever-changing worlds, and then write an essay where you consider how Santiago explicates this conflict.
Note: You are examining setting, conflict and characterization in this analysis.
Your essay must be at least 4 pages — not including Works Cited — and should clearly show your thoughtful consideration of the various points of the assigned question.