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Point Of View

This story is told in First Person Point of View and told through Cukita throughout the story.

A Plot Diagram

CLIMAX/TURNING POINT

The climax of this story was when Cukita's father ripped the speech Cukita was going to read

RISING ACTION

FALLING ACTION

More key points in the rising action were that Cukita starts writing, and shes having trouble fitting in. Cukita was having trouble with her speech so her mother listened to it and helped her with it.

When the falling action began was when Cukita's father started chasing her. After that she hid in her room and refused to let her father in.

Conflict

RISING ACTION

FALLING ACTION

During the rising action the mother, Laura, wanted to invent something. Then her daughter made her angry.

Cukita and her mother came up with a better idea for Cukita's speech. Her mother got her dad to read Cukita's speech, he liked it. Cukita and her father then reconciled.

MAJOR TYPES OF CONFLICT:

~The girls want to go to a better school and be normal (MAN VS SOCIETY)

"We're not going to school anymore, Americans Mami." PG. 88

"Here we were trying to fit in American among the Americans." PG. 89

EXPOSITION

RESOLUTION

Title: The Daughter of Invention

Author: Julia Alvarez

Setting: New York City

Time: Year of 1948

Place: At School and At Home

The resolution was that the speech was written in a way that was favorable of the nuns at school.

We are introduced to the family and see what they are like. We find out Laura, the mother, wants to invent something. And the daughters do not like where they come from. They want to fit it with the Americans.

The Daughter of Invention

MAN VS MAN

~Cukita's Father didn't approve of her speech

"You will permit her to read that?" PG.91

"I suppose it was bad enough i was retelling, but here was my mother ......with me." PG. 94

The Author; Julia Alvarez

The setting of the novel was placed in America, specifically in New York in the 1960's. The setting is very significant to the story because it explains the conflicts and explains what the story is about. The father doesn't want them to turn american just because they moved to America.

Setting

She composes novels, essays, poetry, and books for young readers. Her two most famous works of literature are "How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents" and "In The Time Of The Butterflies." She was raised in the Dominican Republic, but born in New York City. She was born March 27Th, 1950, Therefore she is 64.

Themes

~Freedom and Acceptance~

Additional Requirement

Cukita's father did not want Cukita to say her speech because he thought it was "Showing no gratitude." In America he doesn't realize you can speak your mind freely without bad things happening happening to you.

A generation gap is differences of outlook or opinion between people of different generations. This can be a problem because it is contributing to the generational divide, they see this as segregation of ages and a strong barrier between relationships and other things.

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before the 20th century women controlled the household. Running a household then was more demanding then now, now a days households are easier to maintain. Men back then were labeled to be the workers of the family and support the family, but now the work force is integrated.

Literary Devices

Significance of Title

SIMILIE: But then, she'd toss it in the wastebasket on her way out of the room and give a little laugh like a disclaimer." (page 89)

SIMILIE: On his side of the bed my father would be conked out for an hour already, his spanish newspaper draped over his chest, his glasses, propped up on his bedside table, looking out eerily at the darkened room like a disembodied guard." (page 86)

The mother was an inventor in the story and she had a daughter named Cukita. Once the mother Laura helped Cukita she became a inventor like her mother. Therefore she is the daughter of invention.

characterization

Yolanda

Cukita

Yolanda is Cukita's sister in the story. We see her as defiant because of this quote, "We're not going to that school anymore, mami." (Page 88) We also see her as self-confident because she said, "I celebrate myself, and sing myself." (Page 92)

Cukita is the main character in this story. The story is told around her and her experiences. Cukita is confident, "I didn't need much encouragement." (Page 93) We also see she isn't very polite to her elders, "It is improper, and disrespectful to her teachers."(Page 94)

Eduardo

This is the father of the Garcia girls. We have come to believe their father is traditional because he doesnt like that his family is becoming american. He wants to stick with the traditions he grew up with. "I can tell you right now what the problem always boiled down to: We wanted to become Americans and my father-and my mother, at first-would have none of it."

LAURA

This is the mother of the Garcia girls. She was creative and was an inventor. She only invented at night. She often got ideas, "Some nights, though, she'd get a good idea, and she'd rush into my room, a flushed look on her face, her tablet of paper in her hand, a cursory knock on the door she'd just thrown open: "Do i have something to show you, Cukita!"

Vocab

DISCLAIMER- A denial of responsibility or knowledge

iNHOSPITABLE- Not welcoming; hostile

NONCOMMITTAL- Not committing ones self; not revealing what one thinks

PLAGIARIZED- copied from someone else's writing

INSUBORDINATE- disobedient to a superior

MISNOMER- An inaccurate or incorrect name

DICTATOR- A ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained power by force

INGENUITY- The quality of being clever, original, and inventive

The Daughter Of Invention

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