Set in this political moment of tribalism and distrust, it asks: What do we owe those in crisis in our families, including-maybe especially-members of our human family? How do we live in a broken world without losing faith in one another or ourselves? And how do we stay true to those glorious souls we have lost? ( From the publisher. Aha Momentby Julia Alvarez was in the tiny bathroom in the back of the plane when I felt the slamming jolt, then the horrible swerve that threw me against the door. The flight attendants, already strapped in, waved wildly for me to sit down.
Oh, Lord, I thought, this is it Somehow, I managed to unbolt the door and scramble out. The unit introduces nonfiction texts and contains a range of texts, including articles, essays, memoirs, autobiographies, interviews, speeches, and narrative. A-Ha Moment by Julia Alvarez I was in the tiny bathroom in the back of the plane when I felt the slamming jolt, then the horrible swerve that threw me against the door. Three of the sisters, Patria, Mariá Teresa, and Minerva, tell their story in.
She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her beloved husband, Sam, suddenly dies.Īnd then more jolts: her bighearted but unstable sister disappears, and Antonia returns home one evening to find a pregnant, undocumented teenager on her doorstep.Īntonia has always sought direction in the literature she loves-lines from her favorite authors play in her head like a soundtrack-but now she finds that the world demands more of her than words.Īfterlife is a compact, nimble, and sharply droll novel. In Unit 2, students read diverse contemporary texts, such as Aha Moment by Julia Alvarez, I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr., and Glory and Hope by Nelson Mandela. In the Time of The Butterflies, by Julia Alvarez, is a work of historical fiction based on the true story of the four Mirabal sisters who fought for freedom from the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in the mid to late 20th century Dominican Republic. The first adult novel in almost fifteen years by the internationally bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents.Īntonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. Passage Summary: In Julia Alvarezs Aha Moment, a woman describes a frightening moment when her plane has to make an emergency landing. Aha Moment Summary The short story'Aha Moment' by Julia Alvarez demonstrates that the point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.
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