How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents 2

This is the second section to How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents by Julia Alvarez. The book is in reverse chronological order, meaning that this is the part of the book where the four girls and their parents have only just arrived in America and the girls are attending the school that the parents have sent them too.

As any parent in this generation today, they want their kids to stay true to their roots. I mean, with all the new music, television shows, movies, and just friends in particular, many of this generation's parents want their kids to remember where they came from. "Never forget where you come from." as my dad always said.

I actually liked reading this section. It had a good hook to it. The beginning was really interesting, how Julia Alvarez wrote about how the four sisters were changing from what they once were in the Dominican Republic to what they are now in America:

"By the end  of a couple of years away from home, we had more than adjusted.[...] Mami and Papi got all worried they were going to lose their girls to America," (109).

Here is a quote that most parents can relate to. Losing their kids to customs in America that the parents have never probably heard of before. For example, my parents hate it whenever I read or listen to music that is not filipino, also watching T.V. shows that are not filipino, even though I enjoy watching those.

What Mami and Papi were going through in the book was that they were losing their girls to new customs, they were losing them faster to the new customs, than they did when they learned the old customs. They didn't want their girls to forget everything that they have learned, especially when they pass them on to their offspring.