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

The Character of Yolanda Garcia in How the Garcia Girls doomed Their Accents and Yo Julia Alvarez develops the character of Yolanda Garcia in some different and similar ways in her two restrains 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 about no continuity concerning her character in the two obligates-meaning that all the item details of Yolandas life given to the reader in the first countersign are different (not continued nor elaborated upon) in the sequel. It was almost akin reading about two different characters that just happened to have the selfsame(prenominal) 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 withal marries a man named John after having fallen in slam with a young man named Rudy i n college. In the second book Yolanda does not go to graduate school, in fact, she almost does not drum her bachelors degree because she elopes with a young man named Darryl Dubois. She does become a teacher, precisely 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 warp her. In both books it is clear that Yolanda has successfully assimilated to American culture. Unlike her parents-first times immigrants-who never gain a complete mastery of the English language, Yolanda know the language and excels in school. In the second book, one of her college professors has the f... ...Old World grow and that its traditional values still have a significant match on her. Yolanda must continually reconnect with her Old World roots to attain her destiny of passing on her familys heritage/story to f uture generations. whole works Cited Primary Sources Alvarez, Julia. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. newfound 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 terminology 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.