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SUNY Buffalo State How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez Essay
Subject
Humanities

School
SUNY Buffalo State

Question Description
Please use specific examples from the text to support your points. This should be formatted like an essay; please do not use bullet points. DO NOT JUST SUMMARIZE THE PLOT. I expect you to engage in an analysis of the text and respond critically to it. All papers MUST be 2-3 pages (500-750 words), typed, double-spaced, size 12 Times New Roman font and adhere to MLA guidelines.

Some possible ideas to explore in your response papers are listed below. You only have to respond to ONE question, not all of them. You are also not limited to the questions below.

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
How does Sofia's relationship with her father change over time? Discuss why they behave the way they do toward each other.
Because Alvarez has inverted the time sequence of her stories in the novel, it is difficult to refer to events as “earlier” or “later.” How does this technique add to your understanding of the uncertainty and instability in the Garcia girls’ own lives? How does it reflect their own ambiguities?
Within the group of sisters, Fifi’s lack of memory and her struggle to reconstruct circumstances. her bilingual self makes her the most rebellious against her How does the intervention of her sisters in her relationship to Manuel Gustavo show the axes of Dominican Republic machismo and U.S. feminism?
What connections can you make between Borderlands/La Frontera and How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents? How does Gloria Anzaldua’s theory regarding fragmented identity apply to the Garcia sisters, and their struggle to fit in?