Reyna Grande And Her Novel The Distance Between Us

Reyna Grana was born to a very poor family in Guerrero. It was for this reason that her parents, who were poor, left her at the age of five with their family to seek work in the United States and to set up a new home for their kids and themselves. Reyna’s debut novel, Over a Hundred Mountains, tells the story of Juana, whose dad disappeared after they left to go to America.

Reyna was living in the same shack as Juana in terrible conditions. She has had many important experiences, but one of the most notable is dealing with floods during each stormy season. The waterway near our shack would flood whenever it rained hard. One night, I woke to find our shack flooded.

Reyna, a native of Mexico, finally reached the US. She was put in an isolated corner with non English speakers to be taught by the teaching assistant. She was not allowed to speak to her instructor and she felt unhappy. Reyna was a graduate of Benjamin Franklin Secondary School, Good Country Park (Los Angeles), in 1993. She then attended Pasadena City School between 1994-1996. She then transferred from the College of California Santa Clause to graduate in 1999. She graduated in 1999 with a B.A. She graduated from National College in 2003 with a teaching certificate. She tutored English to 6th – 8th graders for a few years, until she began teaching English to adults in 2004.

Reyna was also a participant in the Developing Voces Rosenthal Program, a program run by Pen Center United States of America. Jenoyne adams, Reyna’s specialist, sent her original copy of Over a Hundred Mountains directly to a managing director. Reyna has a son, Nathaniel, who is four years old.

Reyna Grande relates the stories of illegal immigration and shows their connections. The book tells the story about the poverty that forces children to leave school and work on the farm. It tells how mothers abandon their kids and dads drink stress away to become cruel. The book also tells of the children who rise above their hardship, maltreatment and surrender to achieve their dreams.

Reyna’s mom leaves her at four years of age to go work in America. Reyna lives with her paternal grandfathers who can be cruel and harsh. She paints cardboard homes with scorpions crawling up the walls and flooding in rainstorms. But her desire to be with her family is more agonizing.

The main part of this book is an emotional portrayal of life for these young Mexicans. The poverty of the Grandes is insurmountable, and they yearn to be loved and cared for by their grandparents. Then, their father returns from California to take them away and live in the United States.

They aren’t. The California children of the Grande family are forced to be separated from teachers and their peers. They stress out over the possibility of being expelled, as they struggle to understand English. The kids are missing their mother who is in Mexico because their dad has moved on with another woman. Their father drinks and gets into rages, beating them with their belt and clenched fingers.

I’ve often wondered what makes an article fit more into fiction or nonfiction. This book begins to address that question. This book is verifiable. Its misery is excessive for a fictional story. The book would have a more realistic feel if it was fiction. Grande does not make it verifiable but she forces the reader to accept that her experiences are obvious. It was really that bad.

The book finally ends with the author’s struggle to understand her father. She dedicates this book to her father, writing about him with compassion while refusing not to cover up his past for example when he injured her nose and put his better-half in an emergency clinic. She also tries to understand it. She tries pardoning him for the mistreatment and neediness he suffered as a boy.

Reyna is finally pushed to a better life by her dad. She follows his advice. Reyna attends school and lives with her teacher until she is assured. This teacher introduces Reyna Cisneros to other Chicana/o author and she is no longer alone.

The first part of Reyna Grande’s memoir recounts Grande’s life as a young girl in a Mexican city that was plagued by poverty.

Natalio was her father and he left when she turned two. Juana went illegally to America when she was only four years old to bring her son back. But she stayed there forever. Reyna hasn’t been with either for quite some time. She can’t remember much about her father. She doesn’t remember much about her father.

Reyna is living in Iguala with her older sister Mago, as well as her younger brother Carlos. They live in a poor Mexican village. Abuela Evila treats them with coldness and cruelty, even though they are a part of a loving family. One time, she consumed Reyna’s lamp fuel in order to cure lice. Mago, a young girl of eleven years old, is the only adult who can take care her family.

Natalio brings his children to America. The family then crosses illegally the border. Reyna can’t wait to get away from Abuela Eila. For a short time, Reyna believes that her problems are finally over. Los Angeles however isn’t as she had imagined. There are a lot of people and traffic that move quickly. Trolls are everywhere on a Halloween night. The English language is even worse. It is a language that the youngsters do not speak, and are treated with contempt by educators and neighbors.

In the end, the family members are afraid to return to Abuela Evila and so they stay put. They improve their English skills and get good evaluations. Natalio manages to get all of his children green cards. Despite his brutal methods, he is determined that they succeed. “Just because we are illegal, doesn’t make us incapable of dreaming,” he tells his children. Reyna struggles to maintain a relationship with her father and understand why he acts the way he does. Natalio tells Reyna a story that he experienced in his own youth.

When they become mature enough, their parents let them go. Reyna has her break as she begins college. She lives with a Latin American creator who is a teacher. Reyna is experiencing a time of progress. She finds others who share her experiences and voices, which inspires her to become a writer.

Grande’s understanding is that migration can be a positive experience. The sheer force of her will and the hard work she has put in have helped her achieve milestones such as the secondary school completion, the school graduation ceremony, a teaching vocation, the purchase of a property, parenthood, or marriage.

An in-depth look reveals the impact on foreigners. Long partitions are accompanied by feelings of vulnerability, extreme insecurity, and being seen as an untouchable result. Grande’s hard work and achievable goals help her overcome these challenges, but they leave a lasting mark. No one in her family is solid. As per her mother’s case, the injuries are frequently not treated legally but appear as journeys in search of connections and circumstances which will provide financial security, even if it means leaving people and places on route.

The feelings that the people who left savagery behind and needediness to escape are not repressed, but rather passed onto the children. Grande combats these two mental evils, fear of surrender and neediness.

The American Dream of Grande may not be valid, but a series of compensatory actions that leads to material gain while creating an intellectual discord in her character. Is she Mexican? Is she American? Is it true that she is American? Grande’s love for Mexican food is a way she expresses her personality. She also reveals her inner self by expressing her desire to eat them.

Grande is also able to mend the crack in her character by taking part in a folkloric gathering, where she learns muddled Mexican steps. Authorizing Mexican Customs encourages the author to overcome a feeling of alienation.

Grande’s experience has a lot of significance, because many workers from Mexico and other countries, primarily those from Central America, have experienced the same thing. We feel empathy for their terrible experiences, and we have a great deal of respect for people who want to build a better future for all.

This book has a simple exposition. The author is very straightforward in her presentation of the story, focusing on plot and less on language. The book has merit and is worth reading.