... 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 story was Dominican, and ... I found that my values were not unlike those of the characters. Fu...

• Word Count: 435
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School