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This essay will focus on the analysis of the story Antojos by Julia Alvarez. The setting and characters can be one of the essential parts of a story. But in this instance, we will see how both of these things are of great importance to driving the plot events of the story. The setting of the story is in different parts of the Dominican Republic. On her way to her family’s home in the north, she stops at a cantina where she meets this lady and a young boy named Jose. The way the cantina is described shows how humble and different from what she is accustomed. The writer describes the place as a “cluster of houses on the side of a road” and goes to say that the cantina has a “thatched roof”. When she sees this difference between where she comes from and the way people live on the island, she feels that Dominicans are prisoners of a social hierarchy. The places she is describing, for example, the cantina where she stops and where she goes to pick up the guavas, helps the reader to understand the conditions of the place and how her status of a ‘wealthy American girl’ affects her interactions with people as well as her. Her descriptions of her surroundings convey the idea of what Yolanda is trying to do in the Dominican Republic. She is trying to find herself and her identity. Find a place to belong to that is unknown to her. The place she goes to, Altamira in the north, also drives the …show more content…

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