November 22,1963 was a tragic day for America. On this day president John F Kennedy was assassinated. In the book "American History" by Judith Ortiz Cofer, Elena who is a fourteen year old girl lives in El building in Dallas Texas instead of paying attention to the fact not the world she is to worried about her crush Eugene. Eugene is also in the ninth grade he is her new next door. They know each other from school he has honor classes and they like each other, also she knows him because she looks into his house when she is reading, its something she dose and have been doing for awhile. November 22 is a very important day for Elena because that is the first day she gets to go into Eugene's house. it is important to her because ever since before Eugene moved in there when it was an old couple she have wondered what it would be like to go inside. On this day Elena experiences a very critical thing she experienced racism. On that day she went to go see Eugene and his mom would not let her into there house because of the way she looked her skin color and because of were she lives.
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