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A Study Guide for Julia Alvarez's "Liberty"
A Study Guide for Julia Alvarez's "Liberty"
A Study Guide for Julia Alvarez's "Liberty"
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A Study Guide for Julia Alvarez's "Liberty"

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A Study Guide for Julia Alvarez's "Liberty," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 15, 2016
ISBN9781535827355
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    A Study Guide for Julia Alvarez's "Liberty" - Gale

    09

    Liberty

    Julia Alvarez

    1996

    Introduction

    Liberty is a story by Julia Alvarez, an American writer of Dominican origin. It is set during Alvarez's childhood in the Dominican Republic in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The story was first published in 1996 in Writers Harvest 2: A Collection of New Fiction, which remains in print. It is also available in Elements of Literature: Fourth Course (Holt Rinehart Winston, 2000) and in Literature & Language Arts: Third Course (Holt Rinehart Winston, 2003). The story is told from the point of view of an unnamed child of about ten who is one of four young girls living in their family home with their parents. Her parents are worried about the political situation in the country and are planning to emigrate from their native country to the United States to secure their freedom. The story centers on a pet dog named Liberty who must be left behind when the family leaves their home. During the course of the story the young narrator is presented with some difficult and cruel situations that she does her best to understand and learn from. In style and subject matter, Liberty is typical of Alvarez's work and shows why she is one of the most acclaimed contemporary writers in the United States.

    Author Biography

    Julia Alvarez was born in New York City on March 27, 1950, to parents from the Dominican Republic who were staying in the United States at the time. When Alvarez was three months old, her parents returned with their family to the Dominican Republic, where Alvarez remained until she was ten years old; in 1960, the family fled political oppression in their homeland and returned to the United States, settling in New York City. As a new immigrant in an unfamiliar world, Alvarez felt insecure, and she turned to writing as a way of understanding herself and her life. Encouraged by her teachers, she decided when she was in high school that she wanted to be a writer.

    In 1967, Alvarez enrolled in Connecticut College,

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