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Julia Alvarez"Daughter of Invention" focuses on the relationship between a daughter and her mother. The first mentions of the child's father are in passing: the girls, with our narrator as their spokesperson,...
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Julia AlvarezIn answering a question about tone, make sure to think about how the author feels about his subject. We can accomplish this task by looking at the word choice, particularly imagery, and then...
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Julia AlvarezJulia Alvarez opens the essay “Names/Nombres” with a catalogue of mispronunciations, starting with her family’s arrival at Immigration in New York, where the officer addressed her father as “Mister...
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Julia AlvarezOf course, all symbols represent something bigger and larger than just themselves, and this short story is no exception. Clearly, for me, the biggest symbol in this short story is the typewriter...
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Julia AlvarezYes, there is figurative language in Julia Alvarez's poem "Woman's Work." There is a range of this language. There are visual images (like her scrubbing the floor). There are analogies ("keep house...
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Julia AlvarezWords can be defined in two different ways. They possess either denotative meaning or connotative meaning. Denotative meaning refers to the dictionary meaning of a word. Connotative meaning refers...
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Julia AlvarezThe questions indicate it may be helpful to 1) chose a style of literary criticism relative to a specific piece of writing by the author and 2) separate the author from her work. One style of...
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Julia AlvarezJulia Alvarez is a Dominican-American writer. She was born on March 27, 1950. Now, she writes about how she learned English. She emphasizes her struggles with English. Julia was born in New York...
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Julia AlvarezJulia Alvarez's "Daughter of Invention" is a short story about the cultural adjustments of a family who flee the revolutionary Dominican Republican and immigrate to New York. In the family's...
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Julia AlvarezThis poem concerns a young girl’s early attempts at self-definition. Her perpetual scribbling is, in essence, an insistent yearning to remember her inner self and to remain true to her dreams. She...
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Julia AlvarezThis story, which is told from the first-person point of view, focuses on the narrator's immigrant family from the Dominican Republic. The story reveals interrelated conflicts that arise out of the...
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Julia AlvarezJulia Alvarez lives with her partner Bill Eichner, and together founded the Alta Gracia Foundation to support local libraries. She is influenced mainly by stories her father told her as a child...
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Julia Alvarez"Names/Nombres" is a actually less a story, and more a personal essay. Rather than creating a fictional plot and characters, Julia Alvarez is reflecting on her own experiences and combining them to...
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Julia AlvarezNovelist, poet, and essayist Julia Alvarez writes complex examinations of the multicultural Latin American experience by employing her Dominican heritage and melding it with her American...
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Julia AlvarezThe father of Alvarez's "Daughter of Invention" has realized that his behavior the night before was over-reactive and rather cruel. For, as he listened to the daughter read her speech, written...
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Julia AlvarezBelow is an idea of an outline that would contain Julia Alvarez' biographical information, as well as information of some of her literary writings....
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Julia AlvarezIn this story of a family suffering persecution and under surveillance because of their lack of support for the president of their country, Mr. Victor, the American consul, is a close friend of the...
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Julia AlvarezMinerva becomes a leader of the underground movement against Trujillo and is code named Mariposa, which means butterfly. She eventually arrested for her insurgent activities and is imprisoned as is...
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Julia AlvarezYou will find the idiom “To me it makes no difference. To me.” in Julia Alvarez’s book Once Upon a Quinceanera: Coming of Age in the USA. An idiom is a type of figurative language in which the...
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Julia AlvarezThis is obviously a question that could have a lot of varied answers, but I think that Julia Alvarez has done a great job of proving that she is a novelist of literary merit. She has a unique and...