Snow, Yolanda by Julia Alvarez Essay -- culture, latina writer

Culture molds the character of writers and gives a variety of different perspective on certain life experiences. In Julia Alvarezs unretentive story Snow, Yolanda, an immigrant student, moved to New York. While attending a Catholic school in New York, bomb drills were performed. The teacher would explain why these drills were important. Yolanda subsequently found out that her first experience of watching snow was not the best experience one could possibly have. Julia Alvarez was an pattern of how a Latina writer set herself in a new culture outside of her comfort zone. She, as a Dominican Diaspora, had to reinvent herself as she migrated into a new scenario. Her assimilation into the fall in States culture allowed her to understand and adjoin to the readers needs and points of interests. After all the effort, Alvarez kept in mind that she could not comfort to all the cosmos that she lived in, so she re-reinvented herself all over again to process her thoughts and beliefs into her life. She put her perspective on her writing so that the new wave of readers, even if they did not understand, could relate in some way and appreciate the differences. The sole purpose of her writings was for everyone to change their perspective from walk to the other side of the street in effectuate to avoid sharing the same sidewalk to I do not know them, but I do not avoid them because I do not know them. She instilled in her readers mind how ordinary events were viewed differently through other cultures eyes. Her story Snow was a great example of how she portrayed her technique. 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... ... deeds CitedJulia Alvarez. Snow. Portable Literature Reading, Reacting, Writing. Ed. Lauren G, Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell. 8th ed. Boston, Wadsworth 2011. 75-76. Print Marking The Centennial Of Pable Nerudas Birth A Review of His Selected Works. Social Studies 95.4 (n.d) 181.SocINDEX with all-encompassing Text. Web. 25 March. 2014.Neruda, Pablo. Ode to the colored (poem). Alcohol Research & Health 27.3 (n.d.) 210. SocINDEX with Full Text. Web. 25 March. 2014. Rivas-Rojas, Raquel. FABULAS DE ARRAIGO VICARIO EN LA NARRATIVA DE JULIA ALVAREZ. (Spanish). Canadian Journal Of Latin American & Caribbean Studies 33.66 (2008) 157-169. SocINDEX with Full Text. Web. 25 Mar. 2014.Suarz, Lucia M. Julia Alvarez And The Anxiety Of Latina Representation. Meridians Feminism, Race, Transnationalism 5.1 (2004) 117-145. SocINDEX with Full Text. Web. 25 Mar.2014.