The Distance Between Us By Reyna Grande

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There are an abundance of influential and incenting writers like Reyna Grande whose books are motivationally encouraging. Reyna Grande is an award winning novelist and memoirist who was born in Iguala, Mexico on September 7, 1975. She receives much recognition and awards for her works, including having them publish internationally. The Distance Between Us, a memoir of hers, is coming-of-age story that reveals the growth of Grande from youth to adulthood, and the changes she had made to overcome her past. Her story brings inspiration and is relatable to readers making it intriguing for them to want to read it.
In the first half of Grande’s novel, she states her life before becoming an immigrant where she lives in Mexico of the 1980s expressing …show more content…

Despite the fact that it’s relating to two different time periods, not much has changed from then and now. When Grande first comes to the United States, her father states, “I brought you to this country to get an education and to take advantage of all the opportunities this country has to offer. The minute you walk through the door with anything less than As, I’m sending straight back to my mother’s house.” Grande’s father pressurizes her that she will have to have to deal with the punishment if her grades are up to standard, similarly some students now have the distress of attaining grades their parents wish or they will have to face the consequences. In addition, Grande fathoms the coercions of blending in with others to appear normal like everyone else. In the beginning she constantly feels left out because of not knowing how to speak English: “I wished I could understand what she was saying. I wished didn’t have to sit here in a corner and feel like an outsider in my own classroom,” Grande feels as though she does not belong, wishing to blend in like everyone else. As she grows older she still feels the same even though her English is much well but since she is shy and her shyness appears as arrogance to everyone as else making her a social outcast. Many teenagers now care excessively about their appearances so they can become socially acceptable nevertheless everyone has those insecurities about fitting

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