How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents: Part 2 Review
In the second portion of the Garcia Girls we are able to become more in tune with the characters that the first part is finally starting to make some sense. In the first part of Garcia Girls the sisters are introduced to us as adults who are settled and set in their own lives. In the first portion of the book we are able to see some of the the effects that their experiences during their younger years has effected them but we are not sure of what those experiences where.
In the second part of the book we are able to see the Garcia sisters as a lively group of young women who are caught between cultures. They have become Americanized in every sense of the word and seem to be very distant for the tradition, customs, and values of the Dominican Republic.
The sisters view the actions of their family in the Dominican Republic as ancient and counter-progressive. A good example of this is the way that they see men treat women in Dominican Republic in contrast to the way that they feel women should be treated. They feel that women should be free and independent beings who do not have to answer to a man; whereas, in the Dominican Republic men were obligated to be dominant over their women in order to show that they were powerful. The Garcia sisters are forced to juggle the pressures of their Dominican family and also assimilate into American culture and that has caused a lot of different accounts of conflict withing their family.
In the second portion of the Garcia Girls we are able to become more in tune with the characters that the first part is finally starting to make some sense. In the first part of Garcia Girls the sisters are introduced to us as adults who are settled and set in their own lives. In the first portion of the book we are able to see some of the the effects that their experiences during their younger years has effected them but we are not sure of what those experiences where.
In the second part of the book we are able to see the Garcia sisters as a lively group of young women who are caught between cultures. They have become Americanized in every sense of the word and seem to be very distant for the tradition, customs, and values of the Dominican Republic.
The sisters view the actions of their family in the Dominican Republic as ancient and counter-progressive. A good example of this is the way that they see men treat women in Dominican Republic in contrast to the way that they feel women should be treated. They feel that women should be free and independent beings who do not have to answer to a man; whereas, in the Dominican Republic men were obligated to be dominant over their women in order to show that they were powerful. The Garcia sisters are forced to juggle the pressures of their Dominican family and also assimilate into American culture and that has caused a lot of different accounts of conflict withing their family.
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