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...?Julia Alvarez - Discussion Board The mother in Julia Alvarez’s “Ironing Their Clothes” and “Dusting” is a strict, forbidding, and formidable woman. Alvarez makes it clear that the child in the poems loves their mother dearly, but they see her only as a figure of authority and nothing else. In “Ironing Their Clothes,” the mother is unfriendly and unresponsive to the affectionate needs of her daughter. “My mother frowned, a crease down each side of her mouth. This is no time for love!” The child simply wanted attention, but their mother thought herself too busy to give any to her daughter. The mother was someone who could not be disturbed while working and...
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...Leonidas Trujillo, which prevailed in their homeland, the family manages to immigrate to America. The story revolves around their feelings as immigrants, the problems faced by them, the dilemmas they go through as immigrants where they had to let go of the memories of their past and try to adjust in a new life and culture which did not particularly match theirs. In many of the book reviews that I have read, it has been written that the novel is inspired from Julia Alvarez’s personal life, which can be a possible reason for her very realistic outlook on the problems faced by immigrants. I myself felt that there were many aspects of the book that I could relate to as an individual. As with...
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...?Before we were free by Julia Alvarez Introduction Adolescent literature is a form of literal writing that targets teenagers and issues affecting them. With teenagers as the audience, the type of literature has specific characteristics that identifies with the group. Such features include issues affecting teenagers such as in orientation of major themes, and simplicity that captures the group’s attention. This paper seeks to explore the book, ‘Before we were free’ as authored by Julia Alvarez with the aim of approving the work as an adolescent literature. In order to achieve this, the paper will analyze the book in relation to characteristics of adolescents’ literature....
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...? The Book YO! By Julia Alvarez Families and acquaintances of raconteurs are always at the brink of exposure of details of their private lives, especially when the storyteller anticipates such to be a success upon its publication. That is the destiny of Yolanda’s family, including cousins, friends and assorted associates. Yolanda Garcia published a book that cut deep into her family leaving every member of her family exasperated. Despite the fact that Yolanda claims her piece of work is fiction, each member of her family cannot help associating themselves with Yo’s characters in the book. Because her family members and a couple of her friends are incapable of doing anything but rail at...
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...Once Upon A Quinceaera Quinceaera, the celebration of womanhood at the threshold of girlhood is a popular trend in Latino societies in America. Sometimes the American sweet sixteen celebrations and the celebration for a girl's coming of age, her "quince" is celebrated together. The overlapping of various traditions, social implications and the attempt to be in touch with ones roots, living in a foreign nation; is portrayed through the use of ambivalence in Julia Alvarez's book - Once upon a Quinceaera.
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The book narrates the story of a young girl's "Quinceaera," the official celebration that marks the transition from girlhood to womanhood. A Quinceaera is the 15th birthday celebration of a Latin girl. Julia Alvarez tells... their...
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...14 November Hold the Mayonnaise- Julia Alvarez: This paper is primarily based on anautobiographical essay written by Julia Alvarez and titled “Hold the Mayonnaise”. In this essay, Alvarez offers the readers an insightful look into her personal life based on her new life involving her husband and his two young daughters, while basing her account on the estrangement she felt from her stepdaughters. This estrangement she recalls of developing from the younger members of her new family was due to the difference between Alvarez’s own cultural background and her stepdaughters’ lifestyles. Basically, the essay provides...
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... "The little school" by Alicia Partnoy Argentina passed through military dictatorship during 1976 to 1979. During this period, dissidents and political opponents had been subjected to severe torture and imprisonments without any trial. ‘Little School’ was a secret detention center which was set up by secret agencies of military regime for teaching a lesson to opponents. It is a story of torture and humiliation meted out at author, Alicia Partnoy, who was caught by secret agency in 1977 and kept in The Little School for her dissident ideology. She met with her other ‘hole-fellows’, although guards of the detention center used to keep vigilant eye to restrict the interaction of detainees. It is an incoherent story of imprisoned... "The little...
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... ment to Community Parents In my opinion as a member of the school board, I am in total agreement with the s decision concerning the use of the textbook as a class reader for second graders. Community parents ought to let the book be used as a class reader, the fact that it got approval from the state is enough proof that it is fit for the school curriculum. Although the textbook has a number of stories, two of these stories are controversial; these are about two married princes as well as two married princesses. These two stories are of great importance since they touch on an issue that has been quite a taboo for a long time, and this is about same sex marriages. In my opinion, students in their second grade of education... ment to Community ...
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