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

Life Is for the Extraordinary

Life is for the living not for the dead. There are people who come into this world and change it for the better. Julia Alvarez is one of these person through her work and her storytelling ability. She shares with the world the different cultures between Dominican Republic and New York. Alvarez is not the person she is today without what has happened in her life. By sharing her work with the world Alvarez opened her heart and shared her beliefs and how she came adulthood much quicker than most. Her novel How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents shares diversity, pain, strength, and courage to young adults around the world.

Julia Alvarez
What a time to be alive! Alvarez was born March 27, 1950. At 3 months old

This is also where Alvarez’ storytelling ability really started and this was at a very young age. After being in the Dominican Republic for 10 years, Alvarez and her family had to flee the Dominican Republic due to her father's attempt to take out the military dictator Rafael Trujillo, which did not go as plan and they moved back to New York. This was a huge change for Alvarez who felt that she “lost almost everything: a homeland, a language, family connections, a way of understanding, and a warmth"(Sirias). Alvarez tried starting her new life but it was not as easy as she thought is was going to be, she started to become homesick. Even though she was not the only Latin American at her Catholic school Abbot Academy she was bullied by her classmates (Alvarez). This bullying caused her to withdraw from social things and she wanted to be more alone and this is when literature becomes her best friend. As Alvarez withdrew from the world, her writing, which many of her teachers encouraged her to do, became her connection to the Dominican Republic. Because of this, her relationship with her parents was negatively affected (Johnson). Alvarez continued her education at Connecticut College from 1967 to 1969, where she received the

Rafael Trujillo was born october 24, 1891. This is not the first time you are going to be hearing his name for the next 7 decades, you will hear Trujillo name, not because he help change society or that he is famous. Trujillo had 10 siblings. Trujillo education was not the best it was not just in one place it was held in other people's home from the village he and his family lived. Some miracle happened and Trujillo got a job as a telegraph operator but at this time Trujillo was 16 and this is just the start of his long list of bad things he does to make history. It started with Trujillo joining a gang, then he started committing multiply crimes. I don't know how him joining a gang did not get him fired but what got him to lose his job was forging a check. The best thing that could've happened he become a dad, his first marriage in 1916 where they had two girls, this made Trujillo give up his life of gang and crimes and he got a steady job where he showed real leadership and was promoted higher position. This was just the little taste of power he needed to become the most hated man in the Dominican Republic. So when he sign himself up for presidential he create a secret police to kill people of power from the other team to make sure he won the elections. Trujillo “become president of the Dominican Republic in 1930 through political maneuvering and torture”(help). As Trujillo came into power he took advantage of his power