Project ¡Yo! - Thesis, Introduction, Outline

Julia Alvarez

Weltee Wolo

Rasmussen College

Author Note

This paper is being submitted on July 22, 2017 Rebecca Moore’s

Literature of American Minorities G435/AML4680 course

Julia Alvarez

She was born in New York City in the United States of America after the failed stay in the states. Her parents were the native of the Dominican Republic. When she was three months old, her parents decided to go back to the country and homeland Dominican. This is after her parents preferred the dictatorship of Trujillo to the United States of America. Immediately they were back in the motherland; her father got involved in the underground which brought trouble to the family. They had to hurriedly leave for their safety in 1960 before the founders of the underground that is Mirabal sisters were inhumanely murdered the Trujillo dictatorship. When she landed in New York at the age of ten, she found slight difficulty in the American English because it was heavily laced with Spanish.

She was brought up in the United States of America after running away from the dictatorship of Trujillo. In the States, she experienced some challenges related to the English language because of the presence of Spanish language in English. The water shed experience of going to the United States of America is one of the reasons that made her become a writer. She had to pay close attention to each word since she did not understand the language. She was going through great training as well discover the welcoming world of books and imagination. She sunk her new roots into books. When she was a kid, she would spend her time as a kid reading books, hearing, and tell stories. She was a driven soul who knew what she wanted. She was never discouraged but soldiered on since that was what she wanted.

She kept writing with the knowledge that that was what was in her. Since she had to earn a living, she began to teach and ventured most in creative writing. She would travel across the country moving from one school to another with poetry programs. After being a migrant writer for five years, she decided to start teaching at the high school level from where she moved to teach in college and finally landed a tenure track job with the strength of some publications in small magazines and a dozen of prizes for writing (Wheeler, 2012).

In 1991, she was published her first novel “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents” after she earned a tenure at the Middlebury College. She suddenly had a chance to be what she always dreamt of with the success of Garcia Girls. She had always long to be a full writer that would earn her living through writing. After requesting for classroom leaves for several years, she surrendered her tenure post. She was then invited by Middle College to stay as a writer in residence advising students, giving readings and teaching the course from time to time.

So Julia Alvarez is living or staying in the Tropical Champlain Valley. She is happily settled with Bill doing farming as well in their eleven-acre farm. She has continued to write more poems and to encourage young learners to be self-driven. She calls upon every person that feels the urge for writing to come out and begin addressing his/her urge to realize success in future. She has written many novels and poems as well. Most of the students she teaches have excelled in their areas of studies as a result of her commitment to her work.

Reference

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Wheeler, J. C. (2012). Julia Alvarez.

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http://www.juliaalvarez.com/about/#top