In Marie Marquardt’s, multicultural novel, Dream Things True, Marquardt focuses on the immigration systems issues, through her own experiences in fiction. In Dream Things True, two teens from different cultures fall in love, one happens to be an undocumented immigrant. Marquardt’s immigration experiences influence the novel by displaying a story between a well raised, rich teen boy and a poor, undocumented mexican teen girl who fall in love, influenced by Marquardt’s close friends who fell in love, while being faced with fear of ICE immigration tearing their love apart.
Marie Marquardt, an author of young adult novels, a college professor, as well as an immigration advocate (Marquardt). After many years of researching, as well as witnessing friends that were immigrants, Marie decided to do more to influence others.…