In the short story “Snow” by Julia Alvarez; it's main focus is a girl named Yolanda who is a immigrant her and her family who had moved to New York and was new to everything and had to learn the new language. Her school had air raid drills because at the time they might of had to go to war with communist and one day her teacher was talking about nuclear bombs and had drawn it on the board and it looked like she drew snow and Yolanda looked out the window and freaked out cause she thought they were bombs but it was just Snow. The theme statement that I believe it is is “Although it's scary at first, at the end it will be okay”.I think this is the theme because she moves into another country where she has to learn a new language “ I was put
