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Summary Of Snow By Julia Alvarez

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Throughout the short story “Snow” by Julia Alvarez, the literary devices of imagery and diction contribute to the overall theme that immigrating into a new environment can be a fearful experience. In paragraph three, Yolanda explains that while at her new school, they would perform air raid drills, leaving her imagination to picture the worst-case scenarios she learned about. We see this when she says that she would, “imagine our hair falling out, the bones in our arms going soft.” This shows that procedures and lessons Yolanda never had to learn or do before immigrating to the U.S. have a significant impact on the way she views everyday life, from living in an innocent world to one that is out to hurt her. The words "snow" and "fallout"
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