Julia Alvarez wrote Once Upon a Quinceanera after investigating this popular cultural tradition from multiple perspectives, including the families, businesspeople, and writers who are concerned with the futures of Latina girls in America. Choose one of the cultural myths described in the Rereading America book and write an analytical paper explaining how that cultural myth is represented in Alvarez’s book. The cultural myth will provide the frame through which you examine the book. Your thesis will describe how this cultural myth is represented and you will provide valid examples from the book to support your point.

(Once Upon a Quinceanera : http://www.amazon.com/Once-Upon-Quinceanera-Coming-Age/dp/0452288304)

Technicals: 9 pages, typed, double-spaced, 12pt font, Times New Roman, Page numbers, standard 1″margins, Thesis, supporting evidence, and all quotations followed by in-text citation of the page number where you found the quotation. Example: Virginia Woolf referred to the audience as” the face beneath the page” (11).