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I Want To Be Miss Rover Character Analysis
Movies and celebrities in magazines can be cliché and to perfection, but can an ordinary life be to? Fitting in at a completely new place can be quite hard and manipulate the mind into thinking something is wrong with how we look. Julia Alvarez is a native of Dominican Republic that has moved to the United States and writes about her life in New York. In one of her stories, “I want to Be Miss América”, she specifically expresses her struggles as a Latina foreigner and how she tries to fit in. The author describes her thoughts and manipulated actions in many ways and how she reflects it later on. In Julia Alvarez’s “I want to Be Miss América” the theme that one's desire may never be satisfied if compared to others is revealed through an eager
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