A Girl Named Rosita Flashcards
In a tiny cottage tucked between El Yunque Peak and a wild fragrant rainforest lives a girl
A Girl Named Rosita
A girl with the rhythm of the rainforest in her feet and the sweetness of the sugarcane fields in her swishing skirts.
A Girl Named Rosita
Step, turn, snap-kick, swish, jump, twirl!
A Girl Named Rosita
We are moving to the mainland.
A Girl Named Rosita
He will come later.
A Girl Named Rosita
I am taking you first because you are a big girl and you won’t cry.
A Girl Named Rosita
I am taking you first because you are a big girl and you won’t cry.
A Girl Named Rosita
After days of wobbly decks and stormy seas, a statue of a woman wearing a crown rises up to greet them.
A Girl Named Rosita
Where are the trees and flowers?
A Girl Named Rosita
They will be back in summer.
A Girl Named Rosita
When she wakes, she does the one thing Mama thought she wouldn’t - she cries.
A Girl Named Rosita
Run so the bullies don’t catch you.
A Girl Named Rosita
Out of the cold and away from the noise, she returns to a home that isn’t home.
A Girl Named Rosita
If she only knew more ingles, she could tell the bullies Dejenme en paz! Leave me alone!
A Girl Named Rosita
Is leaving behind her native Spanish like letting go of her native island and all the things she loves?
A Girl Named Rosita
Day after day, she practices until she can speak ingles perfectly.
A Girl Named Rosita
I am five years old.
A Girl Named Rosita
Strum strum strum!
A Girl Named Rosita
Onstage she is home.
A Girl Named Rosita
Why not me?
A Girl Named Rosita
I can be a leading lady too.
A Girl Named Rosita
Then - a miracle happens.
A Girl Named Rosita
Her palms are sweating as she shakes the hand of the man who can change her life.
A Girl Named Rosita
Sign her!
A Girl Named Rosita
This time the movie studio chooses.
A Girl Named Rosita
Please, she prays.
A Girl Named Rosita
Anything but Orchid!
A Girl Named Rosita
I’ve got it!
A Girl Named Rosita
Years after teaching herself to speak perfect ingles, she must fake an all-purpose accent to play maidens, slaves, and Spanish spitfires: the only roles Hollywood will give to a Latina.
A Girl Named Rosita
Some days she wants to quit.
A Girl Named Rosita
But she has come too far to give up.
A Girl Named Rosita
One day she will play an authentic character who is bold, proud, strong.
A Girl Named Rosita
For a month, she practices.
A Girl Named Rosita
Then cue the music: horns, strings, percussion!
A Girl Named Rosita
The role is hers.
A Girl Named Rosita
A sacred silence descends.
A Girl Named Rosita
A collective breath is held.
A Girl Named Rosita
Who will take home the award?
A Girl Named Rosita
May I have the envelope, please?
A Girl Named Rosita
She won!
A Girl Named Rosita
She did it!
A Girl Named Rosita
I can’t believe it!
