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A 3 page essay that offers a brief discussion of the experience of immigration for two of the principal characters from Cristina Garcia’s novel Dreaming in Cuban. No additional sources cited.
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relationships by imagination, habitation and historical reconstruction. The story is presented in a variety of narrative forms, including first-person letters. The novel emphasizes the experiences of Pilar Puente, as she
is one of the few characters who is afford a first-person voice, but her grandmother Celia also relates her story in epistolary form. Pilar feels a close psychic with her
grandmother and a deep affinity for Cuba. She states that while she corresponds with her grandmother sometimes, mostly she hears her speaking to her at night, just before she goes
to sleep, which is when Celia tells Pilar "...what the sea looked like that day" (Garcia 28-29). Celia also feels this psychic connection and says that she "closes her eyes
and speak to her granddaughter, (and) imagines her words as slivers of light piercing the murky night" (Garcia 7). Lourdes, Celias daughter and Pilars mother, is also an immigrant
to the US, but unlike Pilar, who feels a deep connection to Cuba and her grandmother, who is unequivocally devoted to Castro and his communist regime, Lourdes unabashedly revels in
the benefits of capitalism. She runs and owns the "Yankee Doodle Bakery," located in Brooklyn and has to cope with what she perceives to be her daughters unrealistic and romantic
notions about Cuba, her grandmother and Cuban life. Lourdes has to cope with Pilars attitude, such as when she mocks her adopted country by painting an irreverent picture of the
Statue of Liberty. Lourdes, rather than identifying with her mothers support of Castro and Communism, forged a "spiritual link to American moguls" envisioning a "chain of Yankee Doodle bakeries
stretching across America" (Garcia 171). She became convinced that she could fight Communism by her participation in capitalism. Pilar is essentially caught between the two extreme cultural positions held
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