The Character of Yolanda Garcia in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Acce

The Character of Yolanda Garcia in How the Garcia Girls mixed-up Their Accents and Yo Julia Alvarez develops the character of Yolanda Garcia in some different and similar ways in her two track records How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and its sequel Yo. The reasons for the differences in the two characterizations of Yolanda is that there is nearly no continuity concerning her character in the two masss-meaning that all the limited details of Yolandas life given to the reader in the first make are different (not continued nor elaborated upon) in the sequel. It was almost homogeneous reading about two different characters that just happened to have the akin family and happen to have immigrated to the United States from the Dominican Republic. For example, in the first book Yolanda goes to graduate school, becomes a teacher, and only shows interest in writing poetry. She excessively marries a man named John after having fallen in have it away with a young man named Ru dy in college. In the second book Yolanda does not go to graduate school, in fact, she almost does not rule her bachelors degree because she elopes with a young man named Darryl Dubois. She does become a teacher, moreover she publishes mainly prose-short stories and novels-not poetry. Whereas, the similarity in the two different characterizations of Yolanda is that she is definitely assimilated to American culture, yet her Old World values and lifestyle also act upon her. In both books it is clear that Yolanda has successfully assimilated to American culture. Unlike her parents-first contemporaries immigrants-who never gain a complete mastery of the English language, Yolanda get the hang the language and excels in school. In the second book, one of her college professors has the f... ...Old World root and that its traditional values still have a significant collision on her. Yolanda must continually reconnect with her Old World roots to satisfy her destiny of passing on her familys heritage/story to future generations. working Cited Primary Sources Alvarez, Julia. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. refreshful York Plume, 1991. - - - . Yo. New York Plume, 1997. Secondary Sources Alvarez, Julia. Something to Declare Essays. New York Plume, 1998. Barak, Julie. Turning and Turning in the Widening Gyre A Second Coming into voice communication in Julia Alvarezs How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, MELUS Spring (1998), http//www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2278/1_23/53501904/print.jhtml. Accessed 04/07/2001. The Author Project. Julia Alvarez. http//ahs.aps.edu/authorproject/juliaalvarez.html. Accessed 04/07/2001.