Julia Alvarez Essay

In Julia Alvarez’s novel, In the Time of Butterflies, different types of figures of speech were used to help the main idea come across. In conjunction, Julia Alvarez also organized the novel in a way that all four sisters have a chance to tell their story. Creating the novel in this way heavily affected how the story came out. If these special effects were not incorporated into the novel, the story would not have the same gut wrenching effect. Julia Alvarez begins her story with a sit down interview

Julia Alvarez in her book In the Time of the Butterflies uses lots of describing, connecting and helping us to realize things that happened in 1960, in Dominican Republic. The book genre is historical fiction, in this genre truth is often based on emotion validity rather than factual reality. Author looks up the ways to demonstrate the essence of each person's thoughts, feelings, and emotions. In this book it tells about three sisters that with the revolution have released people of their country

the Butterflies Essay During the setting in which In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez is written—20th century Dominican Republic—a woman’s body was seen as a disposable object to men. However, the Mirabal sisters choose to go against this gender stereotype and instead express themselves in their own way, using it as a form of expression to show their involvement with the revolution. In Butterflies, Alvarez uses the female body as a symbol to fight against societal restriction placed on females—the

The author Julia Alvarez was born in New York City, where her parents were currently visiting; they were originally from the Dominican Republic. When Julia was a few months old, her parents went back to the Dominican Republic. Moving to another country where not only the language is different, but also the culture can be very impacting since in the United States, the Alvarez family stayed in the Dominican Republic until Julia was ten years old. There was no dictatorship like in the Dominican Republic

In the historical fiction novel “In the Time of the Butterflies,” written by Julia Alvarez, claims that Patria's faith made an impact on her involvement in the resistance. First, the author uses similes to show her love for religion, next she uses imagery to help paint an image in the reader's mind and finally, she concludes by the use of metaphors. The author’s purpose is to show how Patria’s faith changes throughout the story, in order to help the audience understand that being involved in the

Mariposas—otherwise known as the Mirabal sisters— rose to the occasion to fight for the rights of their people. The Mirabal sisters were four real-life women who carried out clandestine activities against the Trujillo regime; whose lives are chronicled in Julia Alvarez’s novel. In the novel “In the Time of Butterflies,” the Mirabal sisters symbolize the courage of the Dominican people in overcoming barriers and prejudice while being subjected to the political despotism of Rafael Trujillo’s tyrannical regime

“ Names/ nicknames” is a short story by Julia Alvarez that goes over Julia’s life with her culture. As she tries to follow up with her Dominican culture and her life in the US. The author explores the importance of names and how they shape our identities. Alvarez, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic, reflects on how her name was mispronounced, misspelled and also misunderstood in her new home in the U.S. She tells the power of a name and how it can connect us to our original homes and roots

language barrier prevents you from understanding your classmates. The teachers try their best to catch you up with the rest of your class. All of a sudden, your life changes with a rising war. This is the premise of the story “Snow”, written by Julia Alvarez. The story follows a young girl named Yolanda who moved to the United States from a different country. She attends a Catholic school in New York, which teaches her English. During her time at the school, Yolanda starts to learn about the war. Her

In the poem, “Dusting,” Julia Alvarez uses symbolism and imagery to describe children’s desires to follow their own footsteps, instead of what their parent’s footsteps are. The poem is written in first person to delineate how the girl’s goal for herself differs from what her mother wants her to become. Alvarez begins the poem by introducing a speaker who “wrote [her] name / on the dusty cabinet” (2-3) and “scrawled / in capitals on the backs of chairs” (3-4). Her name represents the future that

short story “Names/Nombres” by Julia Alvarez has a theme that leads to loss of identity and insecurity. The story’s theme is in the internal conflicts experienced by the main character, Julia (Hoo-lee-ah), as she finds her identity and cultural heritage in a new setting. This story tells the struggle of fitting in, and the pressure to change into a different culture while preserving one’s sense of self and heritage. “Say your name in Spanish, oh, please say it!” (Alvarez 3). The element shown in the