id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-893 La Carreta - Wikipedia .html text/html 1593 132 68 La Carreta (English: The Oxcart) is a 1953 play by Puerto Rican playwright René Marqués.[2] The story follows a family of "jíbaros" or rural peasants that in an effort to find better opportunities end up moving to the United States (see Puerto Rican migration to New York).[3] The first act begins with the family preparing to move from the countryside to San Juan, capital of Puerto Rico, in search of a "better life". Juanita: the character who experiences the most development in her transition from a docile personality to a strong, politicized one; she challenges the traditional concept of honor and the double standard that obligates women, not men, to maintain the family honor, which she defies by becoming a prostitute; her political development comes as a result of witnessing the oppression of minority groups in New York City, especially through judicial inequalities. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-893.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-893.txt