Prompt #8

The problems posed by sexuality...

For Yolanda the problems started when when her  cousin promised her a human body doll if she'd drop her pants. She keep continuing having problems with her boyfriend, Rudy, who told her that she was frigid, and her husband, John, who she divorces.  Sofia used sexuality to rebel against her father and trying to get her independence.  For Carla, she sees sexuality as an embarrassing and possibly threatening aspect of human psychology.

Prompt #18

"How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent"

I think the author decide to call this book "how the Garcia Girls Lost their Accent" because -Carla, Sandra, Yolanda and Sofia all of them with Dominican Republic plants were planted in New York City in 1960 finding a different life with different culture and language force to adapt to this new custom.  Featuring of the immigrant experience to always look back, the story begins with the oldest one Yolanda who was 39 years old returning where she born Dominican Republic.  I could change the title of the book, i think i would give the same title because if fits perfectly to their story.

Prompt # 3

I had notice that because Carla was the oldest one she felt more out of place in the United States and had much trouble getting alone with her new social and cultural environment. Carla had so many problems at school becuase of the boy and her disabiltiy with the language. She was dicomfort with the puberty and encounter with a pervert American exibitionist in a car. She changed by becoming a psychologist and analyzing her family's myriad mental problems but later in life she had to deal with all those issues that she had lived when she was in her younger life.

Prompt #15

I had choose the image to symbolize the story of The Garcias Girls since they had a big impact on their life living two different cultures, finding a life far different from the The Gentel existence of Maids, manicures, and extended familly that they left behind. During this change of cultures they end up loosing and found a new life style.

Prompt #9

• Why did Carla wanted to return to Dominican Republic?
  

I would think she wanted to return because she had a lot of trouble getting adapted to the English language and American culture.  Besides she is the oldest one so she had the closest tie to the Dominican Republic, plus leaving her family and moving to a new neighborhood, school and country.  

• How was Yolanda's attitude about learning English, what did she did?

Yolanda expanded her English vocabulary with her Sister Zoe.  She knew that learning English would help her to interact with American culture and could open a new world of language and opportunities.

Prompt #17 Symbol

GUAVAS

The guavas Yolanda craves when she arrives on the Island symbolize her desires to reconnect to the best memories of her childhood. She hopes the taste of the guavas will take her back to a vivid experience from the past. Instead, the outing highlights how culturally unprepared she is to pass as a Dominican woman, and how culturally American she has become as an adult.

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Prompt #14

1. She has been too frightened to carry out any strategy, but now a road is opening up before her. She clasps her hands on her chest—she can feel her pounding heart—and nods. Then, as if the admission itself loosens her tongue, she begins to speak, English, a few words, of apology at first, then a great flood of explanation . . .

In Chapter 1, I think  Yolanda gets lost while gathering fresh guavas in the countryside, and gets a flat tire. While stranded, two men approach and ask if she needs help. She is frozen with terror until they ask if she is an American. At this point, she begins speaking English, which the men do not understand, and assents that she is indeed American. This is ironic because the purpose for her trip to the Dominican Republic was to assert her Dominican identity and connect to her cultural and family roots. Yet, she fears interacting with Dominicans outside the safety of the family compound. During this moment of panic, she feels most comfortable pretending not to understand a word of Spanish. Her behavior is considered strange by Dominican standards, since a woman would not be out alone after dark looking for fruit. She can only explain herself by remaining tightly enclosed within her American identity and sticking to the English language.

Prompt #10

I had made connections with myself because i had been in the same situations like the Garcial Girls. The change of culture didn't affect me, but the language did as Yolanda i was afraid to give a speech or presentation in front of the any class  I was feared that i wouldn't understand or they wouldn't understand what i was saying.

Prompt #7

Write about your predictions from prompt #6.  Were they correct?  Why or why not?

• My predictions were corrected because they had problems with the cultures and language.  Because they lost their identities and withstand the pressure of discrimination plus her mother didn't help them at all because she thought that this change could have bad consequences and problems with her daughters who wanted to become Americans and would argue with them in English.

Prompt #6

6. Make some predictions about what you think will happen in future chapters.  What support can you find?

• The girls will have problems with having two cultures and two languages.
• They will eventually realize the importance of both their cultures.

How the Garcia girls lost their accent.

18. The book is called "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent" The author chose this title because the native language of the girls is Spanish they are from Dominican Republic until they move to the United States and they star learning English and they end up forgetting Spanish making English their principal language. If I could call the book different i would change it for letting behind Dominican Republic.

Do Now 03/11/09

Che and Alberto found many interesting things around Peru but what really catched their attention was the Indigenous (Incas). Why they were really interesting talking to this people even if the majority of them didn't speak Spanish, and actually they had one of the Indian son's as an interpreter?

Che, Do Now, Writing

I think when he was young he wanted to become a doctor which he almost did, later in his life i think he wanted to be a figure and at some point he wanted to help Latin America.

The impact that he wanted to give was to help to improve Latin America because he was interested in Socialism for the better Latin America.

Chile

A long strip of Spanish people

Che in Chile...

TWO ARGENTINE LEPROSY EXPERTS TOUR LATIN AMERICA BY MOTORCYCLE.

On the local newspaper they found an article about them, they as experts; key figures in the field of leprology in the Americas, with vast experience, having treated 3,000 patients, familiar with the most important leprosy centers of the continental and researches into the sanitary conditions of those same centers, had consented to visit this picturesque, melancholy little town. I think they had a big impact when they were the "experts" because every one treated them accordingly.  And they were helped by some many people in town for example when they left to the north and their back tire was punctured and they had to stop and fix it.  Soon a railroad worker took them to his house and treated them like kings.