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

Many people from all over the world migrate to the United States for a variety of reasons, such as education, work, and freedom, or for crimes like selling drugs, violence, terrorism , etc. Yet, after typically coming to the United States at a young age, they call it home. It becomes the only place they know, since they never return to their native country. For instance, Julia Alvarez in her novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, refers to the immigration experience, because after their initial struggle, immigrants feel more at home in the United States than in their own countries.

In America, immigrants are free to do what they please if they are of age and follow certain obvious laws. In Julia Alvarez's’ novel, Yolanda visits her

In most countries the education given is not the best or it is not given at all. In the Garcia family all girls have a degree except Sofia. They have spent countless years working on getting their degree and jobs, it is all they know. Unfortunately, it is very unlikely for them to find a job in their career, or generally speaking a great University in the Dominican Republic. Like the mother of Junot Diaz in The Dreamer, she drinks from a stagnant puddle of water and later gets terribly ill. Although pained from her stomach, she goes to the school and pleads for them to let her attend. They then arrest her mother for not letting her go to school. After having her son, she migrates to the U.S and tries to learn English and become a nurse, but fails. Instead, her son became an English writer and professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She then realized that it was worth having her mother sent to jail and drinking that stagnant water so her child can be someone in the American world. They truly believe the U.S is their home because Diaz received his education and job just like a normal citizen would. He worked his way to the top to let his mother know that it was the best choice to migrate to the U.S because if she did not then nothing they have right now would be there. What would he do if he returned to live in the Dominican Republic? He cannot do anything because all he knows is the American

In the article The day after 9/11, by Paul H. Robinson, claims how his judgement on immigration has changed, “. . . I could not imagine there was another country in the world where a circle like this would be taking place, and how lucky it felt to be here.” After being with these men and sharing each other's stories he realizes their true love and devotion to the United States and how sometimes they are even more grateful for the simplest things yet how an American citizen can take things for granted and then he knew this circle with men all over different parts of the world could not happen anywhere else and cherishes