Yolanda Garcia Research Paper

Literature of american minorities
The Fact and Fiction of Yolanda Garcia

6/8/2014

“I bet there were a lot of people mad at Shakespeare, too, but aren 't we all glad that he wrote Hamlet?" Yolanda 's sisters said in trying to make their tight situation with their little sister Yolanda just a little bit lighter. Even during the days the Garcia family had resided in the Dominican Republic, and Yolanda had always had a cause to tell her stories in either fact or fiction form. The family had to be cautious in the dictatorship, which in turn, had caused many sleepless nights in the Garcia household. When the family had immigrated to the United States her mother still had to worry about the stories that Yolanda would go on to write. Would she have to wait around for a social worker to stop by the house if Yo were telling her fiction stories at school? Yolanda had to write her stories about the
Garcia and got straight A 's in school and with that was rewarded with a scholarship in which she had used for her major in the sciences. It would be twenty-five years later before she would see Yolanda again. She would stop at her practice in Miami while trying to pedal her manuscript. Sarita is a success being a business owner, while Yolanda has to go from place to place to search for work. Things would never be as they were between the two "sisters" as they are already on different life paths. Yolanda had told so many stories in her life that she was known for her fiction, and you could not tell if she were telling you the truth or another long winded story. She also holds dear to her heart her homeland of the Dominican Republic. It is what she can share with her father when dealing with his past, and when their eyes meet, her father feels so much closer to Yolanda than that of his other daughters. You may believe that it is because her mother says that they are so much alike, but there is so much more to it than