Julia Alvarez
Paperback | Pages: 192 pages Rating: 3.87 | 5582 Users | 918 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Before We Were Free |
| ISBN: | 044023784X (ISBN13: 9780440237846) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Dominican Republic |
| Literary Awards: | Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (2004), Américas Award (2002), Pura Belpré Award for Narrative (2004) |
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I wonder what it would be like to be free? Not to need wings because you don’t have to fly away from your country? Anita de la Torre is a twelve-year-old girl living in the Dominican Republic in 1960. Most of her relatives have emigrated to the United States, her Tío Toni has disappeared, Papi has been getting mysterious phone calls about butterflies and someone named Mr. Smith, and the secret police have started terrorizing her family for their suspected opposition to the country’s dictator. While Anita deals with a frightening series of events, she also struggles with her adolescence and her own personal fight to be free.Identify Epithetical Books Before We Were Free
| Title | : | Before We Were Free |
| Author | : | Julia Alvarez |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 192 pages |
| Published | : | April 13th 2004 by Laurel Leaf Library (first published August 13th 2002) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Fiction. Cultural. Childrens. Middle Grade. Teen |
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Ratings: 3.87 From 5582 Users | 918 ReviewsNotice Epithetical Books Before We Were Free
I found myself really into this historical fiction by Julia Alvarez, Before We Were Free, and felt empathetic to the characters. Sometimes I even needed to remind myself that this is a fictional book when reading. The story about how Anita, the main character lived under great politic pressure with her family and grew up to be a mature young lady both physically and mentally through a series of event is fascinating. Besides that, as a reader, I see the simplified version of how innocent peopleBefore We Were Free I recommend this book because, it has a unique plotline, and is full of interesting characters and settings. The book kept me turning pages, because it was addicting and the events were fascinating throughout the story. This book is full of suspense, making me turn the pages to see what happened next. I am not done reading this book yet, but am close to the ending. I relate to the character Anita, because just like her I am sort of caring for my family and my friends. Just
In Julia Alvarezs first young adult novel, Before we were Free, we meet 12-year-old Anita de la Torre. Like many young children, she is curious and talkative. Having lived a comfortingly protected life thus far, Anita is sweetly innocent and naïve. Her life seems rather normal. She annoys her older sister and has a crush on her new American neighbor Sam. However all of this will change quickly. The story takes place in the Dominican Republic during the months leading up to the assassination of
A story of a girl Anita and her family during the dictatorship of Dominican dictator, Rafael Trujillo and their fight for freedom and the losses they incurred in getting it.
In 1960, at the age of 10, author Julia Alvarez fled the Dominican Republican in the company of her parents, who had collaborated in a plot to overthrow the longstanding dictator, Rafael Trujillo. While Before We Were Free is not a strictly autobiographical account of these events, it is clearly influenced by them. Like Alvarez, the novel's narrator is a young girl coming of age during the final years of the dictatorship. Over the course of the novel, she realizes that the man whose portrait
Before We Were Free [2002] ★★★★Julia Alvarezs Before We Were Free is a moving coming-of-age account of a young girl who grows up in the Dominican Republic under the dictatorship in the late 1950s. Anita de la Torre may be only twelve but she already knows what it is like to have her family members suddenly disappear and a secret police raiding her home. Alvarezs book strikes a delicate balance between the joys and sorrows of late childhood, including first love and early teenage insecurities,
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