Life is what we make out of it, a person can go through it and let life pass them by, or a person can actually go out and get what he or she wants in the life. The real person goes out in the world and snatches what he or she wants. If we want something for real we can get it. Julia Alvarez shows us from her work nothing is impossible in this world. Life didn’t control her, she control her own life. She went through hard times but she didn’t broke. We all have something special in us; we just need to recognize it. Julia Alvarez had the best weapon inside her. Her pen was her weapon and she won the world with that pen. She had written all kinds of works including novels, books, and poetry. Her most of the writings shows us the struggle of a woman and an immigrant family in United States. Basically, she has expressed her feelings about her immigration to the United States in most of her writings. She was thrown into a different world and different culture; she found her native land in her writings. She has used her dual experience of her native land and the new world United States in her writings.
Julia Alvarez was born in New York on March 27, 1950. Her father, a doctor who ran the hospital met her mother while she was attending school in the United States. Alvarez was second of her four sisters. Soon after her birth Julia moved to Dominican Republic with her family. She grew up in Dominican Republic with lots of cousins and was supervised by the maid and the women of the family. She was enjoying her life in her native land like other kids but her life started to change when her father was involved to fight Dictator of the Dominican Republic Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina. As a result her they were not safe at home. The clue from an American agent leads them to leave their home and moved to United States, Julia was 10 at that time. She was excited and was looking forward to US as it was not a new country for her, she was born there. It was not like she had...