Carlos Eire beautifully constructs his memoir in his work Waiting for Snow in Havana. Eire talks about his childhood and how he was raised in Cuba and in the United States and how Castro’s rule affected his and his family’s life. The two major themes woven throughout this work is one of loss and longing; both about a past-life taken and a future life stolen. Eire speaks of what his life might have been like and writes about the life he found instead. “The world changed while I slept, and much to my surprise, no one had consulted me.” Eire tells his story naturally through his point of view, but he often shifts between his perspective as a kid and his perspective as an adult reconciling his past. This kind of writing style is not something Eire
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Carlos and his brother are two of 14,000 other children who’ve been exiled from Cuba without their parents. Children are admitted quickly into the United States because they aren’t required to have security clearances, unlike their parents who wait months and sometimes years for welcomed entry. From the time that Eire and his brother enter the United States, three and a half years go by until they are reunited with their mother in America. Eire’s father never reaches them. The book begins with Eire’s, eight at the time, retelling how Batista fled that morning on New Years Day, with Castro now in power. After this regime change, Eire continues to live in Cuba, however, nothing is how it was, he recounts. Waiting for snow in Havana shares Eire’s memories before and after the Cuban revolution and writes briefly about his life after getting to America. For the most part, however, Eire recounts his childhood memories from Cuba, sharing memories of car-surfing, firecrackers, beautiful sunsets and lots of …show more content…
He achieves a great compilation of realist perspectives on life’s tragedies, the mystery of hope coming and going, and a grand desire to grasp the flow of life as events, tragic or not, shape the future, even though explanation for such events become almost incomprehensible and unbearable. “Is it possible to have a life without desires? I refuse to believe it.” Carlos Eire’s desire was to tell this story and relate memories from his life to a grand audience, and he does so both eloquently and
Carlos and his brother are two of 14,000 other children who’ve been exiled from Cuba without their parents. Children are admitted quickly into the United States because they aren’t required to have security clearances, unlike their parents who wait months and sometimes years for welcomed entry. From the time that Eire and his brother enter the United States, three and a half years go by until they are reunited with their mother in America. Eire’s father never reaches them. The book begins with Eire’s, eight at the time, retelling how Batista fled that morning on New Years Day, with Castro now in power. After this regime change, Eire continues to live in Cuba, however, nothing is how it was, he recounts. Waiting for snow in Havana shares Eire’s memories before and after the Cuban revolution and writes briefly about his life after getting to America. For the most part, however, Eire recounts his childhood memories from Cuba, sharing memories of car-surfing, firecrackers, beautiful sunsets and lots of …show more content…
He achieves a great compilation of realist perspectives on life’s tragedies, the mystery of hope coming and going, and a grand desire to grasp the flow of life as events, tragic or not, shape the future, even though explanation for such events become almost incomprehensible and unbearable. “Is it possible to have a life without desires? I refuse to believe it.” Carlos Eire’s desire was to tell this story and relate memories from his life to a grand audience, and he does so both eloquently and