final post for the Garcia girls

The sophomore class has finally completed the book "How the Garcia girls lost their accents" and due to reading the entire story to the very end, it has become less difficult to summarize and understand what happen. I believe that the story in general was not that terrible as many of my classmates did. On the scale of 1-10, I would give it at max a 5.

 The author, Julia Alvarez, was creative to write her story in reversed chronological order. To me, it felt as if I was reading a mystery book, trying to get to the bottom of things and how did it come to be. The main problem was that it was not exactly like a mystery book. The author stated several things about the main character at the beginning of the story and yet she lacked explanation and reasoning for why and how things happened. I did not find the story that confusing. All it took was some additional thinking since we are more familiar in reading books at are in chronological order and the order of events are more easy to be noticed. This is one type of reading I do not usually read (if I read at all).

Earlier in the book it was more difficult to deeply understand what was going on. We, the readers, did not get that much information on the main characters’ personality.  So like detectives, we had to assume and guess based on the “evidence” we read from the book to determine who did what and why. We did not really understand why the father behaved angrily and stubbornly at the start of the book until later on in the book where it spoke about the moving to America

But each stage in the reversed chronological order shared a similarity. Throughout each part, the character’s environment made a strong impact on their personality. When the girls lived in the United States, their attitude became ruder than it once was. They tried to blend in and did so by trying marijuana and they were pressured into having sex which they managed to resist.