Summary Of How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents By Julia Alvarez

Julia Alvarez has written many books in her life that has contributed to her lifestyle. Julia Alvarez went through many hardships in her life and because of this it has helped her become a successful writer. Julia Alvarez was born on March 27, 1950 (currently 64 years old) in New York City. She was her parents first born child and her family moved to Dominican Republic, where they were originally from. They stayed their for ten years but failed to live there so they moved back to the United States and moved to Brooklyn, New York. She was raised in the Dominican Republic in her primary years but once she moved she attended high school and college in New York. Because of the way of life she lived, this is where she got all her history from

“I was wondering why you decided to organize How the García Girls Lost Their Accents in reverse chronological order so that the four sisters grow younger throughout the novel.” said Elizabeth Blachman (Slice Magazine) Julia Alvarez organizes the story of How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents the way she does because she wanted to create the story how she wanted the reader to understand it. She wants her readers to think like an immigrant. Alvarez loves connecting all of her writings to the reader. Julia says that stories have a huge impact on peoples lives and they are a great influence and can teach us a lot. Reading books that are diverse, like Alvarez's give people a different view on the world and they can learn more about different cultures and important things. “In her novels she loves writing at a childs perspective. She wants to write for children of all ages so they all have a taste of biracial information and immigration. She wants to give more hope and joy than sadness. Julia structures her stories so the young readers are prepared for what is going to come at them in the real world and that they will be great leaders of our world when they are older.” (Slice Magazine) Julia hated books while growing up in the Dominican Republic Reading was not important in their culture and no one

Especially immigrants family is an important identity that defines them. A strong family shares the values of resources and minority girls struggling with identity. In the novel, the Garcia girls are very close to one another and want to support each other in everything they do. Laura Garcia finds out Sofia has marijuana, so she gets in trouble. The other three sisters also confess that it was their drug. With a close family like the Garcia’s they all stick together whatever the situation is. Having a good support system as an adolescent girl will always prove to her that she has her other family members to rely on. When the girls turn eleven they begin to realizes what sex is and what their role is going to be as they mature. Many people in their country have kids at a young age. In the novel, Yolanda says, “If only I too had been born in Connecticut or Virginia, I too would understand the jokes everyone was making on the last two digits of the year, 1969; I too would be having sex and smoking dope; I too would have suntanned parents who took me skiing in Colorado over Christmas break, and I would say things like "no shit," without feeling like I was imitating someone else.” (Alvarez pages 94-95) Yolanda struggles with the idea of this in her first year of college and begins to discover how her immigrant upbringing has affected her relation to English language and sexuality, The Americans around her seem