How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Meghan Ross In the book, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, by Julia Alvarez, we learn about how four girls grow up: moving from the Dominican Republic to the United States. The main character is one of the sisters, Yolanda, and her obstacles and memories are portrayed through each chapter. ... The color coding system was "just easier" and "saved time" for their mother. ... Yoyo really wanted to do it but she still had a slight accent and didn't want to be made fun of by her fellow students. ... Each one of the four girls ended up with an in...

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In the book, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, by Julia Alvarez, we learn about how four girls grow up: moving from the Dominican Republic to the United States. The main character is one of the sisters, Yolanda, and her obstacles and memories are portrayed through each chapter. ... The color coding system was "just easier" and "saved time" for their mother. ... Yoyo really wanted to do it but she still had a slight accent and didn't want to be made fun of by her fellow students. ... Each one of the four girls ended up with an individual life and grew up to be four different people....

• Word Count: 968
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• Grade Level: High School

Lost Identities In the novel How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez brings to mind an important topic in regards to all adolescents, worldwide, and that is a sense of identity. ... The Garcia girls not only have to learn and discover who they are, but they have to do so in another culture, another world. The girls end up doing so quite well, but how they got there was not so easy. ... In these ways, Alvarez depicts, through the course of her novel, the separate identities that these young girls came to adopt as their own. ... The reader understands how the girls interact wit...

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My classmates and I were assigned to read "A Daughter of Invention", which is an excerpt from Julia Alvarez's book "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents". The text talks about a Latin family forced to move to New York because of the existing dictatorship in their country. The main character in the story narrates this transition from one culture to the next, and the hardships the siblings in particular had to endure in their quest to fit in and become equal members of the American society. I was immediately interested in the story, especially because the family discussed in the stor...

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(He would later serve as the antagonizing factor in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent and the murderous protagonist in Las Mariposas.) ... It is the separation from her native country, the Dominican Republic, which serves as a backdrop for the holistically autobiographical novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent. ... The same edict is echoed in another praiseful review, "The Garcia girls may indeed have lost their accents, but in her first book of fiction, Julia Alvarez has not yet quite found a voice (Rifkind 3)." ... That poet at Lucinda's party the night before argued that...

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Even after slaves' had obtained their freedom, the characters were still imprisoned by their haunting memories. ... Later in the novel a character, Beloved, is introduced. ... This is similar to "How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accent" because they so desperately want to fit in to American culture they forget about their Spanish heritage and they can't figure out who they are supposed to be. ... This novel explores how slavery had a negative impact on the former slaves' sense of self worth. ... This is a big step for Denver as she begins to transform from girl to women. ...

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PSY's parody of the new materialism and the behaviour he saw around him was subtle and thus lost on the vast majority of listeners, particularly the new international fandom. ... - How does the Frankfurt School theory of culture industry apply to K-pop? ... Because of such reliance on commodified art, Adorno wrote that the consuming public had lost the ability to be discerning of issues that could possibly deserve attention – due to their inability to critically assess their situation as it is so much simpler to be docile and accept the imposed status quo. He wrote about how the cu...

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