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Book Review of Novel of Julia Alvarez
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Added on 2020-03-23
Book Review of Novel of Julia Alvarez
Added on 2020-03-23
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Running head: BOOK REVIEWBook reviewName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note
1BOOK REVIEWJulia Alvarez is a writer and writes on different genres like poetry, novels, children’sbooks and essays. This review will critically analyze a story from her novel ‘Yo!. The novelrevolves around a female protagonist Yolanda (Juliaalvarez.com). It portrays her relationshipwith her husband and doctor, who becomes an object of her indulgence. She is misunderstood forJoe in English, nicknamed ‘Yo’ in Spanish, and pronounced and doubled like Yoyo, the toy.Yolanda is torn between different cultures and places. She finds her identity and name toconstantly slip. She is fond of poetry and lives in language and rhymes (Scopemed.org). The novel is an unmistakable portrait of Yolanda as a woman, daughter, wife, lover andartist. It establishes the character of people around her like her husband John, he parents anddoctor. At the beginning it is seen that Yolanda stands by the window at a mental institute andwatches a man with a tennis racket. The objects present in the room were named by her and shedescribed her personal relationships. Yolanda imagined instances when she flirted with herhusband John amidst constellations on a riverbank. She had a penchant for poetry and often usedto rhyme words during conversations with her husband. Yolanda rhymed his name with ‘pond.’However, John failed to rhyme her name with any other word. When she pointed out that hername matched with cielo that stands for sky in Spanish the fact that John did not appreciate herlanguage and cultural connections (Articles.latimes.com). Soon Yolanda started to mistrust her husband when she was rebuked for being crazy. Shewas also said that she needed a shrink. A sense of mistrust was created in the protagonist on thelist of pros and cons that her husband had made for marrying her. These events draw the humancomplexity of her character (Bibliotecadigital.ufmg.br).
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