The End.

Finally the novel “How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents” is done. Over the course of three weeks, I am finally done ready the book. Even though the reading was hard to understand because its filled with vignettes and the time line is going backwards, it was worth reading it because after listening from other student during the Lit Circle about the book and reading the novel i there are many ideas why Julia Alvarez, what was the true meaning of the book, and how did all the vignettes connect as one idea. I want to focus on the idea of the author’s life and how she reflected in her book.

As i was reading the book, the main characters: Mami, Papi, Yolanda, Carla, Sofia, and Sandra are from the Dominican Republic. When i was looking over Julia Alvarez’s Biography she was too from a Dominican Republic Country and moved to New York city like the Garcia family. And when she and her family moved to America, they were very much influenced by the American culture and they respectfully the American cultures. In the vignette The Blood of the Conquistadors she wrote about some secret agent form the government of the Dominican Republic. She too experienced about the government. “When Alvarez was ten years old, her father became involved with a plot to overthrow the dictator (military ruler) of the Dominican Republic, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina. His plans were discovered, however. With the help of an American agent, he was able to get his family out of the country before being arrested or killed,“(notablebiographies.com). Her family was part of a way for the country to be free from a Tyrant with the help of agents.

The purpose of writing this book was to share the author’s experience as a fictional character and adding more characters rather than herself. She also wrote her book backwards meaning the time line is from preset to past. She probably did this because she wants her audience to see the that the characters has a deeper meaning and get to know the characters more towards the ending or their beginning of their life in America.