I think I want to write and analyze more about Yolanda. At this point in the book, Yolanda is shown to be the smart child of the family in her mother’s eyes. In her sister’s eyes, Yolanda is the “bad one” because of the experiences that she’s had in college and other relationships she’s been in afterwards.
Because the book is written in reverse chronological order, the beginning of the book represented the last part of the story and the end of the book represented the first part of the whole story. So starting from the beginning of the book or the end of the story, Yolanda was coming back to Dominican Republic after five years of living in the US. She talks about how she doesn’t want to go back to the US and gives a perception on the dangers and the situation that the Dominican Republic is in at that time.
Before Yolanda goes back to the Dominican Republic, she was respected by her mother for being the smart, poetic one and by her sisters as the fearless one. Yolanda’s stories in Part I helped build her character. In the vignette, Jon, Yolanda is having trouble with her husband John because all he wants to do is have sex while she finds him more and more unattractive. She goes to a therapist and falls in love with him. In the vignette, The Rudy Elmenhurst Story, Yolanda is a college student who falls in love with a boy named Rudolf Brodermann Elmenhurst the third. All throughout this vignette, Rudy wants to have sex with Yolanda, but she does not give in and Rudy leaves her for another girl who will sleep with him. Yolanda is described in this vignette that she is very innocent and that she is very devoted religiously. She has a sense of what is right and what is wrong and no matter what, will not give into the demands of a boy she loves if she doesn’t feel right. Yet, in Jon, Yolanda is not innocent at all. In fact, she has an affair with her therapist because she no long loves her husband John. She changes from a very innocent girl to what seems to be a self centered woman.
I’m not sure what her real character is and I want to see how she progresses through her life to end up in America and become what she is at the beginning of the book/ end of the story.
Because the book is written in reverse chronological order, the beginning of the book represented the last part of the story and the end of the book represented the first part of the whole story. So starting from the beginning of the book or the end of the story, Yolanda was coming back to Dominican Republic after five years of living in the US. She talks about how she doesn’t want to go back to the US and gives a perception on the dangers and the situation that the Dominican Republic is in at that time.
Before Yolanda goes back to the Dominican Republic, she was respected by her mother for being the smart, poetic one and by her sisters as the fearless one. Yolanda’s stories in Part I helped build her character. In the vignette, Jon, Yolanda is having trouble with her husband John because all he wants to do is have sex while she finds him more and more unattractive. She goes to a therapist and falls in love with him. In the vignette, The Rudy Elmenhurst Story, Yolanda is a college student who falls in love with a boy named Rudolf Brodermann Elmenhurst the third. All throughout this vignette, Rudy wants to have sex with Yolanda, but she does not give in and Rudy leaves her for another girl who will sleep with him. Yolanda is described in this vignette that she is very innocent and that she is very devoted religiously. She has a sense of what is right and what is wrong and no matter what, will not give into the demands of a boy she loves if she doesn’t feel right. Yet, in Jon, Yolanda is not innocent at all. In fact, she has an affair with her therapist because she no long loves her husband John. She changes from a very innocent girl to what seems to be a self centered woman.
I’m not sure what her real character is and I want to see how she progresses through her life to end up in America and become what she is at the beginning of the book/ end of the story.
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