The purpose of writing a new novel made her go from Vermont to Wisconsin. She went to a small town in central Wisconsin called Necedah, which means land of the yellow waters. She went there because she wanted to write a novel about Virgin Mary, and in there people were having apparitions of her. When Julia gives reading, people will come to her and recite stories and she would tell them to write it. But they will answer that they are not writers. Julia kept a yellow folder with different stories she has written. When the time comes to write a novel, book, or poem, she would go back to this folder to find inspirations and ideas to write her new literature. Julia has a certain time that she spends in writing from the morning to 2:00 in the afternoon. She decides to write it during the morning because her mind is out of worries and problem about her life. When she enters her process of writing, she explains that she disappears. If the phone rings or someone from UPS comes looking for Julia Alvarez, she would say to come back after 2:00 pm. This is because that was the time where she would get out of her circle where she only thinks about writing and she would become normal again. This was a problem for her family because they couldn’t call before 2:00 PM but they got used to it since it’s something that Julia enjoyed.
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“My advice is, if you are sorely tempted to try out a new adventure, go for it! Just don’t forget where you are headed, and knowing this will imbue that adventure with even more resonance and richness” (Alvarez 281).Reaction:
Life is only one, and people have to make everything possible to enjoy it. Even if it is something dangerous or you know it will bring you problems, try it even if in the end you’ll regret it. At least you know you tried it. As the quote is stating it, if you want to prove something new, do it without thinking about what other people will say about it. But you always have to keep in mind why are you doing and what impact this will have in your life. It is true that when people want to try a new adventure, they are going to sit and think what impact this will have on their lives and wonder why they want to do this. It’s not like this but you have to keep in mind what this adventure is going to bring you to. To Julia, her adventure was to be a writer, but her parents did not want her to be that. She defied her parents and even thought she fell many times, she has to stand up by herself and do everything to be successful. At the end everything was worth because she became a famous writer that can share her stories to other people that are in the same situation that she was.
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