This paper is designed to convey how the life of Julia Alvarez had a major impact on her work as a writer. Julia Alvarez is one of the most famous contemporary writers that is from the Dominican Republic. She grew up in time where the people of D.R. were severely repressed by the dictator Rafael Trujillo. Living under this horrible situation influenced her as a writer to express this in many of her stories. In her story “Liberty”, it is very clear, that she emphasizes how important freedom is away from the vicious rule of Trujillo. On the other hand, this paper is designed to convey the life, art and creative genius of Salvador Dali. Dali is known to be one of the most incredibly talented artists of the 20 century. Inspired by great artist …show more content…
such a Picasso, Dali joined the Surrealists Movement which was a group artist and writer that sought to unlock the unconscious mind. Dali’s ability to convey this in his amazing imagery of the “dream world” in his painting made him the phenomenal artist that will be talked about years to come. Julia Alvarez, a prominent essayist, novelist, poet and educator born in Santo Domingo on 27 marzo1950.
At age 10 she was forced to emigrate to the United States with his family because of the socio-cultural oppression at the time ruled the country where the dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. With only ten years old he became reality strive to master English as a second language; at present this is the language used to express Alvarez messages through his poetry. Julia Alvarez was noted for several years to provide entertainment activities and literary teaching at various levels of educational institutions, as well as in various communities. At that time a project of bilingual literary workshop in Wilmington, culminating in the anthology I am / I Am. In the course of the years 1985 to 1988, he stood out as assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana stands. Alvarez has been chosen as one of the six Dominican-Americans who have made significant contributions to Dominican society in both …show more content…
countries. The author of the story “Liberty”, Julia Alvarez, does an amazing job showing how important freedom is for the people for the Dominican people and the fight against a repressive government. The narrator of the story is about an un named young girl who was given surprisingly given a dog by her father as a token of his love an appreciation. The mom, on the other hand, completely hated the idea of her daughter getting a pet when they are trying to leave there home land country. Later on, the young girl has to make the incredibly tough decision to give up the dog named Liberty or stay in her repressive home land. Alvarez uses the character conflict and the symbolization of the dog to illustrate to the readers the harsh realities of not having liberty during her early life. Among the most important novels we mention Alvarez How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent, 2000), At the time of the butterfly. The message of the play is that these sisters, who fought against a tyrant, are a model for the modern woman who fights against all justice and adversities that are presented in life, and even succumb to them, they can be considered themselves as heroines, for the simple fact that he had enough courage to face it. His first novel was declared book of the year in 1991 by the Library Journal and New York Times Book. His second novel, was nominated and chosen the best book of 1994 by the American Library Association. His works have been translated into several languages. In his poetry and prose Julia Alvarez discusses issues of cultural differences, family, and identity. Alvarez teaches us in navigating the complex worlds of fitness and confesses to human resistance to tyranny. The July 28, 2014, President Barack Obama gave the National Medal of Arts to poet, novelist and essayist of Dominican origin, Julia Alvarez. The writer was honored at the White House for his contributions to the arts and humanities. Salvador Dali was born in Spain May 11, 1904 to a middle class father who was a lawyer and a mom was a notary.
His father was the strict disciplinarian and his mom was more lenient. Early on his parents noticed that their son had an unusual talent for painting. They also noticed that their son “young Salvador was a precocious and intelligent child, prone to fits of anger against his parents and schoolmates” (p.1). Being that his dad would never tolerate this behavior Dali and his dads relationship would always clash and later on deteriorate. One the other hand, his mom was patient with his eccentric behavior and sent him away to art school. Dali’s untamed mentality was definitely something that impacted his work and had a major effect on his life as an
artist. Between these two great personalities Julia Alvarez and Salvador Dali we can see that the poet Alvarez mostly from his writings shows us the need for freedom, due to the times we lived dictatorship in the era who ruled the dictator Trujillo in the Dominica Republic, on the other hand we have the great painter Dali which since childhood became interested in art. Dali self-described as being excessive at all, for example perverse lagging, repulsive, weak or soft. We can analyze the similarities between these two great personalities is that from an early age interested in art, want to convey through their work the kind of childhood they lived, to make contributions to society both Alvarez with his writings as Dali through his paintings and what they represented for as an artist. Through their works Dali allows us to appreciate the most secret of his desire, his erotic life aspects and their fantasies. Dali claimed that his canvases were painted referred to as dreams; his images of soft watches, hypertrophic members and supported by crutches legged wading elephants, to name some of the best known are the expression and release of sexual obsession and fear of death once. Within the similarities that these two personalities have found the writing as Salvador Dali was not only a painter of numerous works, but also noted that in writing. He wrote autobiographical books like The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí (1942) and Diary of a Genius (1965). He was a member of the French Academy of Fine Arts since 1979. Unlike Julia Alvarez which continues today making contributions to society through their jobs, Salvador Dali died on January 23, 1989 in Figueras.
Julia Alvarez is a Dominican-American poet, novelist and essayist who born in New York USA in 1950. Alvarez works is a representation of her experience as a Dominican in United States. Even more is a reflection of her issues of assimilation to a new culture and internal battle for achieve her own identity. One example of this conflict is her successful poem Dusting. Here she use deferent metaphors to brought her contraction as a new generation with the old generation represent hear by her mother.
Alfredo Corchado — is the author of the book named " Midnight in Mexico:A Reporter's Journey through a Country's Descent into Darkness”. We are, probably, all interested in finding out the facts, news, and gossips about Mexico. This country was always associated with something mysterious. For me personally, the title of the book seemed to be very gripping, I was interested in revealing the secrets of life in Mexico, thus I decided to read this book. I was really curious, what can Alfredo Corchado tell me about the life in this country, the country, where the constant massacre is the picture, people used to see. In his book, the author tells the reader about the real situations, which took place in Mexico, reveals the secrets of the people’s lives and tells the story from the “inside”. He describes the way he lives his life, and does his work. The " Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter's Journey through a Country's Descent into Darkness” is a memoir. Author tries to transform his own experience into the story line. Corchado shows the reader the darkest episodes of Mexican society, while relying on his own experience.
In the novel, “The Book of Unknown Americans,” by Cristina Henriquez, she writes about the life of peoples migrating from Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Venezuela and many similar Spanish-speaking countries to the United States. This novel talks in deep about the hardships faced by such peoples. Many characters are involved to make this story interesting. But the story mainly revolves around Alma and Mayor. Alma is married to Arturo Rivera and belongs to Mexico. Also, she is the mother of Maribel. Basically, she is the one who cares for the betterment of her family first rather than other materialistic things around her. She is a great character with many redeeming qualities who sincerely plays her role as a supportive wife and as a dutiful mother.
A quick read of Ana Castillo’s poetry will provide a reader with much knowledge of the style she uses. The style used in “Seduced by Natassja Kinski” and “El Chicle” is conveyed vividly. A key ingredient to Castillo’s style is imagery. Castillo uses imagery to portray the environment, object movements, emotions, and everything else that is of utmost importance. Also important to Castillo’s style is her choice of words. Castillo refers to all words in poems as gold. Every word must be picked and placed with all the care in the world. Along with her imagery and choice of words, metaphors, poetry form, and flow are essential to creating the two featured poems.
Demetria Martínez’s Mother Tongue is divided into five sections and an epilogue. The first three parts of the text present Mary/ María’s, the narrator, recollection of the time when she was nineteen and met José Luis, a refuge from El Salvador, for the first time. The forth and fifth parts, chronologically, go back to her tragic experience when she was seven years old and then her trip to El Salvador with her son, the fruit of her romance with José Luis, twenty years after she met José Luis. And finally the epilogue consists a letter from José Luis to Mary/ María after her trip to El Salvador. The essay traces the development of Mother Tongue’s principal protagonists, María/ Mary. With a close reading of the text, I argue how the forth chapter, namely the domestic abuse scene, functions as a pivotal point in the Mother Tongue as it helps her to define herself.
It sometimes is quite difficult to find one’s voice when no one is truly listening or understands. Yolanda, or "Yo", a Dominican immigrant, has grown up to be a writer and in the process infuriates her entire family by publishing the intimate details of their lives as fiction. “¡Yo!” is an exploration of a woman's soul, a meditation on the writing life, as well as a lyrical account of Latino immigrants’ search for identity and a place in the United States. Julia Alvarez divides her novel ¡Yo! into chapters to distinguish the perspectives of each member of the Garcia family. Through the stylistic, subtle homage to the Spanish language as well as speaking on the horrors that occurred during the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic, Julia Alvarez showcases storytelling in the first chapter of her novel titled “From ¡Yo! The Mother” to show how Yo and her entire family used it to cope with their struggles as immigrants in America. By telling stories, Yo’s mother Laura, battles between her Dominican and American identities to ultimately redefine not only who she is, but also who she and her family will be.
Valle’s most significant contribution to the Spanish theatre is his invention of the literary style of esperpento, which is best represented in one of his most famous plays, Luces de Bohemia. Valle created esperpento with the aim of representing the harsh realities of Spanish twentieth century society through the concave lens of grotesque deformation, so that he could present the lives of the Spaniards in the light of mockery and absurdity. During his writing of Luces de Bohemia, the Spanish society has been brought to a halt, along with the lack of political progress and social improvement, therefore this concerning political situation has influenced and steered Valle towards his literary evolution, the exaggerated grotesque, which he though was the only suitable way to represent the shocking reality and problems of Spain. In this way, he could alarm the people to terminate their complacent acceptance of this reality and he could also produce a distancing effect which renders the reader immune to the play’s purpose, thus making the artistic experience more tolerable. His experience in the killing fields was what made him t...
Rodriguez discusses in his piece. In his childhood, he spoke Spanish at home and English in his
The year is 1916, the location is Merida, Yucatan. At this time, Salvador Alvarado was governor of Yucatan and believed that “women’s emancipation an integral part of Mexico’s overall revolutionary goals of elevating oppressed peoples” (76). Alvarado was a socialist that had some radical ideals. He and constitutional leader Venustiano Carranza believed women should be educated, they wanted to educate women only to become teachers. They portrayed to help women but this help only pigeon holed them.
Many reviews have been written on Julia Alvarez since she is a Dominican Diaspora, a Jew who lived outside of Israel, who wrote in a Latina perspective in the country of Uni...
Gabriela Mistral was born on April 7, 1889 in Vicuña, Chile. When she was only three years old, her father abandoned her family. She attended a rural primary school and the Vicuña state secondary school. By the age of sixteen, she started to support herself and her mother by working as a teachers aide. Gabriela Mistral is only a pen name for Lucila Godoy Alcayaga. She took the name from her two favorite poets: Gabriele D’Annunzio and Frédéric Mistral. She was the first Latin American to receive the Nobel Prize for literature (1945). After the suicide of her lover, Romelio Ureta, she lived a life of self-described desolation. Although she wanted it, she never experienced motherhood. She did adopt a child but it later died. She taught at Colombia University, and Vassar College. In 1930, she was a visiting professor at Barnard College in New York City. She also became the principal of Santiago High School. Her first text was la Voz de Elqui and Diario Radical de Coquimbo in 1905. Her second work was called Desolación. Soon after she accepted her post at Santiago, she was invited to work in Mexico on a plan to reform the libraries and the schools. She lived primarily in France and Italy during 1925 to 1934. She also worked for the League for Intellectual Co-operation of the League of Nations between 1922 and 1938. She was the honorary consult for Brazil, Spain, Portugal and the U.S. In 1933 she entered the Chilean Foreign Service and was appointed by the government of Chile as a sort of ambassador-at-large for the Latin American Culture. During World War two, she became friends with Stefan Zweig and his wife. Later they committed suicide in Rio de Janeiro. Also her nephew, Juan Miguel killed himself. Because of poor health, she was forced to retire to her home in New York. She died on January 10, 1957, at the age of sixty-seven. She died of cancer.
Each one, despite being fiction, is a painting of his experiences, and the cultures of Buenos Aires. Among his themes are myths passed down through the families in his country. I thought that the stories that were contained in this collection were very educational. When finally taking a minute to analyze, and find deeper meaning to the tales, I discovered that they all posses what he has known in his life. He is easily distinguishable in his works.
The poem “Exile” by Julia Alvarez dramatizes the conflicts of a young girl’s family’s escape from an oppressive dictatorship in the Dominican Republic to the freedom of the United States. The setting of this poem starts in the city of Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, which was renamed for the brutal dictator Rafael Trujillo; however, it eventually changes to New York when the family succeeds to escape. The speaker is a young girl who is unsophisticated to the world; therefore, she does not know what is happening to her family, even though she surmises that something is wrong. The author uses an extended metaphor throughout the poem to compare “swimming” and escaping the Dominican Republic. Through the line “A hurried bag, allowing one toy a piece,” (13) it feels as if the family were exiled or forced to leave its country. The title of the poem “Exile,” informs the reader that there was no choice for the family but to leave the Dominican Republic, but certain words and phrases reiterate the title. In this poem, the speaker expresser her feeling about fleeing her home and how isolated she feels in the United States.
In order to convey Cortázar’s passionate interest in reading and writing literature, it is necessary to highlight his upbringing as a child where he was first introduced to the world of literature at a very young age. Julio Cortázar was born on August 26th, 1914 in Brussels, Belgium to his Argentinian parents, Julio José Cortázar and María Herminia Descotte (Cortázar 12). At the age of four, his family returned back to Argentina where he would spend the rest of his childhood in Banfield, near Buenos Aires. When Cortázar was six, his father abandoned the family and he was left to live with his mother and his only sister. At their home in Banfield, Cortázar would spend much of his time in the backyard. It was there that he would receive the inspiration to write some of his most famous, future short stories, such as “Conducta en los velorios.” However, Cortázar described this period in his life as “full of servitude, excessive ...
...contrastes. A pesar de que presentan una diferencia de casi sesenta años respecto de sus fechas de publicación, los temas centrales que abordan son prácticamente los mismos: la representación de la pobreza y marginación de los sectores urbanos capitalinos, las luchas por la preservación de las comunidades del Caño, la división de clases y espacios, el anhelo por tener una mejor calidad de vida, la resistencia al sistema capitalista, entre otros. El poema de Julia de Burgos muestra un espacio olvidado por la Historia y la literatura, con el propósito de indagar sobre el mundo social y realizar una crítica a los sistemas que lo oprimen. Más aún, se adentra a una problemática que hoy todavía existe, por tanto, su poema mantiene la misma vigencia y pertinencia que tenía cuando fue escrito. Y aquí radica la importancia, no solo de dicho poema, sino de su obra en general.