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The book gave me glimpses of what Dominicans experience coming over to American and in their native land. I admit to never deeply considering this subject before. The subject of Dominicans as immigrants to American was never an interest to me. I now have a new found interest regarding Dominicans in America.
Surprisingly to me I found peeping in on the character’s lives from the Dominican very engaging. The book kept my attention from beginning to end. I was surprised to have consistent interest because I have a new found lack of attention to reading novels in my forties. I think being an adult student and having so many things to accomplish at work, school, and home makes me detour reading anything that doesn’t impact me greatly …show more content…
By the time of the book’s end I found that I had more tolerance and almost sorrow for some of the characters. I began to look beyond their actions to consider the root of their not so favorable characteristics. The author has the ability to bring out the root of character flaws without boldly revealing them. There were many revelations that were revealed about the characters past. The revelations revealed motives and roots behind many of the actions that took place.
I realized interconnection of African American and Dominican American African Heritage. Growing up my father who is nearly an expert with African American history informed me that Dominicans and African American both had African roots. I was able to connect the similarities of thoughts, cultural familiarities, and common feelings for the first time through this book. I feel like I witnessed many things from my culture in the book.
It took me a few chapters to realize that the book was a collection of short stories and not about the same characters as I had initially assumed. I want to know why the author changed characters instead of staying with one family. The reoccurring characters that appeared in the book that intrigued me the most was Yunior, Rapha, Mami, and
The book gave me glimpses of what Dominicans experience coming over to American and in their native land. I admit to never deeply considering this subject before. The subject of Dominicans as immigrants to American was never an interest to me. I now have a new found interest regarding Dominicans in America.
Surprisingly to me I found peeping in on the character’s lives from the Dominican very engaging. The book kept my attention from beginning to end. I was surprised to have consistent interest because I have a new found lack of attention to reading novels in my forties. I think being an adult student and having so many things to accomplish at work, school, and home makes me detour reading anything that doesn’t impact me greatly …show more content…
By the time of the book’s end I found that I had more tolerance and almost sorrow for some of the characters. I began to look beyond their actions to consider the root of their not so favorable characteristics. The author has the ability to bring out the root of character flaws without boldly revealing them. There were many revelations that were revealed about the characters past. The revelations revealed motives and roots behind many of the actions that took place.
I realized interconnection of African American and Dominican American African Heritage. Growing up my father who is nearly an expert with African American history informed me that Dominicans and African American both had African roots. I was able to connect the similarities of thoughts, cultural familiarities, and common feelings for the first time through this book. I feel like I witnessed many things from my culture in the book.
It took me a few chapters to realize that the book was a collection of short stories and not about the same characters as I had initially assumed. I want to know why the author changed characters instead of staying with one family. The reoccurring characters that appeared in the book that intrigued me the most was Yunior, Rapha, Mami, and