Essay on Insight on the Life and Works of Julia Alvarez

Ten year after her second marriage happiness surprised Julia, she knew the man who  became her third husband. The true companero for the women she had become.    The “first Muse” by Julia Alvarez show us that we have to overcome our obstacle in  order to get successful. Julia had to deal with a dictatorship and bullying at her school but that  didn’t stop

Selena Quintanilla, queen of Tejano music, wife, daughter, and sister, who tragically met her sudden premature death. She left behind masses of adoring fans mourning her loss, the new great view of Tejano music, a memory of the beautiful girl who sang her way into the hearts of millions, and the thought of what could have been. The thought of what might have happened if she reached full fame. Now, we can only reminisce in the idea of what she might have become.

The Years with Laura Diaz, was a journal that Carlos Fuentes wanted the readers to see the twentieth century through the eyes of Laura Diaz. She experienced the cultural and political event between 1905 and the 1970's-from pre-revolutionary, through the building of Mexico's union movement, to the Spanish Civil War, and the massacre of students at Tlatelolco on the eve of the 1968 Olympics. Throughout her journal she experienced political, economic, social, situations.

Julia Alvarez is a Dominican-American poet and writer. She was born in New York, New York on March 27, 1950. Although she was born in New York, people had believed she was a native of the Dominican Republic, but she wasn’t. She had spent her childhood years in the Dominican Republic with family and cousins. The Alvarez family moved back to the Dominican Republic because they preferred Trujillo’s dictatorship than how things were operating in the United States of the early 1950’s. At the age of ten Julia’s father was involved in conspiring to overthrow the dictator putting the family in danger, and forcing them to flee back to the United States.

Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz was an extremely radical activist for her time. She was known as the “Tenth Muse”, the “Phoenix of Mexico” (Harss pg.6) in many western parts of the world. As a child she grew up with very limited formal education and envied men who were privileged enough to receive primary education, and access to higher education. Sor Juana was a constant defendant of the rights of women, often coming off as inappropriate in her occupation as a nun, and women in the Spanish Empire, making her a threat to the man who was trying to gain power at the time (I deliberately left out his name due to the fact that I felt it would distract from the main person in this- Sor Juana.) Sor Juana was a diverse writer who often switched styles and genres of writing. However, she is well known for her poems that could, “inspire such tenebrous thoughts in the mind of the 20th-century reader.” (Harss pg.3). The scandalousness of her writings are said to be proof of her insanity, and results from the torturous tasks she would inflict upon herself, which were also encouraged by her confessor at the time in an attempt to, “moderate her zeal” (Harss pg.7).

Anachronologically deemed a feminist for her writings, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz stood in the New World as a defiant, female Catholic. Through her work, she displays her head-strong character, illuminating the hypocrisy that was flourishing in patriarchal Mexico while simultaneously creating metaphors that clearly showed how she viewed her situation. Moreover, through extenstive allusions, she displays her aptitude, proving that she had one true love in life: the love for learning. Perhaps doomed from the start because of her sex, any time Sor Juana delved into her passion she was bound to hear insolence from a traditional member of society, namely the Bishop of Puebla,

Julia Alvarez is a famous author from the Dominican Republic. She is most known for winning the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles book award in 1991 for her novel How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Barth). Alvarez’s Dominican background and her immigration to the United States influenced her writing, especially in the novel How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents.

She wrote about reality. Primarily, Guerrero was not seeking a crowd of illegals. She was pursuing young readers with open minds. Such as when she reached out to young girls during the time in the book when she got her menstrual cycle and what a difficult time that was.

Marge Piercy born in Detroit in 1936 has published novels, short stories, poems and essays. Julia Alvarez, a Latin author, born in 1950 in New York and is of the Dominican descent, she has written fiction, poetry and nonfiction work. Alvarez is a dreamboat of a writer. Her language is fresh and economical. She zeros right in on piquet details. (Garner) Both women have written poems on what it’s like growing up as a female. Alvarez’s “Woman’s Work” and Piercy’s “Barbie Doll” share the idea of what females encounter during their lifetimes.

Maria Santiago, was born in 1961, she was 12 years old in 1973. She lived in a house with her mom, her dad, three sisters, and three brothers, plus herself. A typical day of her life was basically going to school, going home, playing with her brothers and sister outside, doing her homework, eating dinner, going in the shower, and going to bed.

‘“absolutely miserable”, she adds, “Thank God because what are you going to write about if you don’t struggle as a child? I don’t think that you become creative because you have struggled, no, but creative people are fuelled by anger and passion, and haunted by demons and memories.”(PBS.org) She was born in Peru on August 2, 1942, but raised in Chile “ She worked as a journalist in chile until the 1973 military coup”(PBS.org) she then had to flee the country because “Allende's uncle, President Salvador Allende, committed suicide when his administration was overcome in a 1973 military coup.” (PBS.org)Isabel the fled to Venezuela where she would soon meet her husband and her first and only daughter’s father. “She married her first husband, Miguel Frias, in 1962 at the age of 20, daughter Paula was born a year later” (PBS.org)Her daughter was born on october 22, 1963 , “I wanted to be like my grandfather because my mother had a terrible life and he had all the privileges and the power and the freedom and the car – I think that was the moment I started to rebel against all male authority: the police, the church, everything. I was so angry and my mother was very worried because she thought I was never going to catch a husband. I wasn’t particularly good looking

Isabel Allende Many people internationally have the same core values, even coming from different ethnic backgrounds. Isabel Allende, an author known worldwide, has been able to touch the hearts of many by using her universal themes of family, politics, and love while displaying her own cultural background. Growing up in many areas, Allende was able to pick up many cultural traits while still holding on to her Chilean heritage. Throughout her many novels, Allende was able to accurately portray her culture. Isabel Allende is a well-known author who is influenced by her Chilean heritage and her family’s involvement in politics.

If I had to choose a person who is “famous” for doing something successful it would have to be Selena Gomez. She made a small start on television for children to topping the world with her music, this talented artist has come a long way. Her story is all about her success she finally achieved after so many difficult steps along the way.

The author of this book, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, was born in Aracataca, Colombia in 1928. Marquez was raised by his grandparents and his grandfather was a Liberal veteran who fought in the Thousand Days War. His grandfather was a colonel who was highly respected and considered a hero by Colombian Liberals. His grandfather was well known for his refusal to remain silent about the banana massacres that took place the year after Garcia Marquez was born (like the massacre in the novel). His grandfather was also a great storyteller. He took Marquez to the circus each year and also introduced him to ice at the United Fruit Company store. Marquez’s grandfather also taught him that there is no greater burden than to kill another human being, which

Isabel Allende was conceived on August 2, 1942, in Lima, Peru, to Tomás and Francisca Allende. Isabel Allende is the goddaughter of Salvador Allende, the primary communist leader of Chile who was her dad's cousin. Allende's dad was an ambassador and forsook the family when Allende was only two years. Allende, her kin, and mom at that point moved in with her granddad in Chile. Allende recollects herself as an insubordinate tyke amid those years living with her granddad. "We lived in a rich house with no cash," (Allende, Telegraph). "My granddad would pay for what was vital yet my mom did not have the money to get us a frozen yogurt. I needed to resemble my granddad in light of the fact that my mom had a frightful life and he had every one of the benefits and the power and the flexibility and the auto I believe that was the minute I began to defy all male expert: the police, the congregation, everything."(Allende, Telegraph). This engaging state of mind that Allende has is appeared in a large portion of her abstract work, for example, The Stories of Eva Luna, House of Spirits, and Eva Luna. Allende experienced childhood in a climate where ladies were mediocre compared to men and this is the reason Allende composes stories where the lady is solid and free. To numerous perusers, Allende seems to be a women's activist and engaging creator in light of the fact that the majority of Allende's work is about how ladies can prevail without the need of a man yet don't fail to understand