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A Study Guide for Julia Alvarez's "Daughter of Invention," 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.
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A Study Guide for Julia Alvarez's "Daughter of Invention" - Gale
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Daughter of Invention
Julia Alvarez
1991
Introduction
Daughter of Invention
is a chapter in Julia Alvarez's first book-length work of fiction, How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, published in 1991 by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. The book contains fifteen interrelated short stories about the Garcías, a Dominican family of four sisters and their parents. The story takes place in about 1961, soon after the García family has immigrated to the United States from the Dominican Republic to escape the cruel and repressive dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. They live in an apartment in New York City and must adjust to the new and different lifestyle they encounter in the United States. Although the book deals specifically with the challenges a Dominican family faces assimilating into American culture, it also addresses the universal experience of all immigrants who must find their way in a new culture.
Daughter of Invention
focuses on Laura García (Mami), Carlos García (Papi), and Yoyo, one of the four García daughters. Yoyo is called upon to write and deliver a speech at school to honor her teachers. After struggling to figure out what to say, Yoyo is inspired by the words of Walt Whitman. Laura is beside herself with pride when she hears the speech, but Papi is horrified. In a fit of temper, Papi forbids an incredulous Yoyo from giving her speech. Yoyo and the reader soon understand that Papi's anger is not really brought on by Yoyo's speech, but rather by his fear that challenging authority was dangerous, as it had been in his native
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