The book “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents” by Julia Alvarez, is a novel structured episodically as a series of inter correlated stories told in reverse chronological order. From part I to part 3 in the story, Julia Alvarez does a great job of showing the changes in life styles from the Dominican Republic to the United States. As we look at the individual parts of the story, characters, and Immigrant experiences, we can see these life changes. The characters inside the story are the key to understanding the novel. Each Garcia girl is unique in their own way. The Garcia girls are Carla, Sandra, Yolanda and Sofia, with the narrator being different chapter to chapter. Carla is the oldest of the Garcia girls. She had the hardest time adjusting to her new life in the United States compared to her other sisters. Being more specific, she had the hardest time with learning especially in English. Basically, Carla had the roughest time adapting to school in general. After dealing with the harassment by teenage boys she dealt with this problem by becoming a psychologist so she could analyze her family’s mental problems.
The seconded Garcia girl is Sandra. Out of the six girls, she is the most artistic of the bunch. When …show more content…
Yolanda may have been the one who changed the most throughout her journey. As a child in the Dominican Republic, she was a total tomboy and a rebel; she was always doing rebellious things. Yolanda went through constant troubles, for example, she was frightened by leaving the Dominican Republic and the memory of when she kidnapped a baby kitten from its mother. As her family moved to the United States, she became a poet and started interacting with men. She fell in love with a guy named John but eventually divorced him. The divorce was so traumatic for her she too like her sister suffered a mental break down and moved back to the Dominican because she wanted to reconnect with her Spanish
The seconded Garcia girl is Sandra. Out of the six girls, she is the most artistic of the bunch. When …show more content…
Yolanda may have been the one who changed the most throughout her journey. As a child in the Dominican Republic, she was a total tomboy and a rebel; she was always doing rebellious things. Yolanda went through constant troubles, for example, she was frightened by leaving the Dominican Republic and the memory of when she kidnapped a baby kitten from its mother. As her family moved to the United States, she became a poet and started interacting with men. She fell in love with a guy named John but eventually divorced him. The divorce was so traumatic for her she too like her sister suffered a mental break down and moved back to the Dominican because she wanted to reconnect with her Spanish