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=Daughter Of Invention = This story was in the time line of the mid 1900's. The author of this story is Julia Alvarez. The setting of the story is a town in the United States of America. This story is about a mother and father that just moved to America. They don't know very good English but they get their daily newspaper from the Dominican Republic. The daughter Cukita needed help with her English language because she use to live where they didn't really speak that language. Cukita got help from the nuns at her high school. Cukita's father didn't want to leave their Spanish culture. In fact, he ripped up the papers and told her not to deliver the papers. She got mad so Cukita and her mother stayed up writing another speech. Cukita's father felt bad for what he done so he got her a new typewriter.