She was not only an immigrant in America who was fighting to be treated fair by people like those bullying boys, but also, she was a teenager girl who was transitioning into an adult woman. Carla was in the same situation as many other females. Going through teenage, a girl feels the body shame and sense of loneliness haunting her because of her changing body. Despite of this she also felt other issues. This quote shows how Carla was unable to stop thinking about those boys who played a huge role in her transitioning life.
It was indeed an adult version of the sickly white faces of the boys in the playground”. In the text, Alvarez states obvious feelings of Carla when she was talking to policemen as, “Carla was forced to confront the Cop’s face. Her being immigrant and not knowing the language is a very miserable part of her life, as talking to the policemen about the incident that she encountered on road made her speechless because she did not know the basic vocabulary yet. In these quoted lines Alvarez proved that Carla was indeed trying her best and wanted to give all by her heart to learn this new language and culture. In the story, Alvarez said, “Carla soon knew her school route by heart”, “She walked down the block by heart”, Then by heart, she walked the long mile”. Alvarez also show her trying her best to fit in and learn everything by heart. As Alvarez depicts her in one part as thinking of driving school in one of those “flashy red cars” which the bullying boys mention a lot while talking in their group. Even after all she has this thirst to prove herself to the bullying boys. She was all alone and did not know what it looks like to be a child in American culture. She cannot confirm to herself if she can move ahead or stay where she is. Carla struggles to find her place among her peers but due to being bullied by some boys at her new school and getting interacted with a pervert guy made her feel helpless about herself. She had issues with understanding language, without which she cannot live in the society. Carla shows an excellent example of an immigrant and tries to “fit into” the American culture. Immigrants can never assimilate easily into a new culture. Through Carla, the author criticizes the body shame that every teenage girl goes through and elaborated that in a very realistic way that made the character of Carla become alive in the imagination of a reader. Carla tells the difficulty of being raised in another culture, also includes the difficulty of being a female. She exemplifies an immigrant who tries to assimilate into American culture. Photo by Jocelyn Augustino.In “Trespass”, Julia Alvarez characterizes a teenage girl called Carla, who in the story further takes the reader to a world where people have trespassed against her and she struggles through different areas in her life. President Barack Obama presents the National Medal of Arts to novelist, poet, and essayist Julia Alvarez in a White House ceremony on July 28, 2014. In 1997, with her husband, Bill Eichner, Alvarez established Alta Gracia, a sustainable coffee farm/literacy center in the Dominican Republic. She is currently a writer-in-residence at Middlebury College. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature. Alvarez has won numerous awards for her work, including the Pura Belpré and Américas Awards for her books for young readers, the Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature, and the F. Julia Alvarez is the author of novels ( How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent, In the Time of Butterflies, iYo!, In the Name of Salomé, and Saving the World), collections of poems ( Homecoming, The Other Side/ El Otro Lado, The Woman I kept to Myself), nonfiction books ( Something to Declare, Once Upon A Quinceañera: Coming of Age in the USA), and numerous books for young readers (including How Tía Lola Came to Visit/Stay, Before We Were Free, finding miracles, and Return to Sender). She illustrates the complexity of navigating two worlds and reveals the human capacity for strength in the face of oppression. Alvarez explores themes of identity, family, and cultural divides. Julia Alvarez is recognized for her extraordinary storytelling.
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