"What do you want to be when you grow up"' my grandfather asked [...] I was staking up all the exciting possibilities for the future [...] `I want to go to Nueva York [...] and I want to be a poet and write lots and lots of poems' [...] `A poet"' my grandfather said." (Alvarez, Something 11). The world is full of possibilities, as kids we want to grow up to do everything and anything. From simple jobs such as working in an ice cream shop to more complicated jobs such as going to the moon. One day we realize that life is not as simple as we thought it was when we were kids. Moreover, what we thought was wonderful is not as wonderful as we thought. That is what Julia Alvarez realized when she got to the United States. Due to her life experiences and literary works...