The Garcia Girls and The Men

   Reading the novel How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents has been quite a reading. The book is all little confusing because of the time changing from present to the past, and the vignettes are not as helping at all. Some of the vignettes are little confusing because of the transition of going to the past, but so far the reading of part two has been straight forward and understanding.
    In part has been an acceptable reading, and i pretty much understood all the vignettes. For example, in the first vignette in part two it talked about the four Garcia girls being influenced by the American culture, and by the influences they encountered they were all sent to boarding school for punishment. 
      The second vignette titled Daughter of Intervention and it was about Yolanda writing a speech for her school and she wanted to write the speech by herself with no help. When she finished writing her speech she read to her father and he thought it was disrespectful to the teacher, so he ripped it apart and he did not want to hear any reasons from Yolanda. Yolanda ran to her room and her mother voluntary wrote a brand new speech for her. 
      The third vignette titled Trespass talked about Carla experiencing a disturbing moment in her life. Carla had troubles in school because the lack of understating of English and going through some changes that made her feel like an outsider. She went to school and many boys ridicule her because of her appearance and her accent. Then Carla was invited by a stranger to get inside the car, but she refused and ran off. She told her mother and her mother called the police. Police came and asked questions about what happened during that time, but she could only say that the man was driving a green car and the man had little hair. It was also families first year in New York, and it was the first time the family experiencing snow. She was afraid to tell and she did not know a lot of English, so he was frustrated. 
         The fourth vignette titled Snow was about the family's first year in New York and it was the first time the family experienced snow. It was the time Yolanda was growing and developing her English vocabulary that describe her life challenges. 
         Fifth, the vignette explained the family had dinner with the people that helped their father to have a job as a doctor, the Fannings.  they were at a ballet show and everyone was enjoying until Sandra saw the most shocking thing in her life. She saw her Mrs. Fanning put a kiss on her father, she could not believe that her father kissed another woman. Then her father saw Sandra and immediately told her not to tell anyone, it was between her, Mrs. Fanning and her father. It was shocking for a child to see her father kissing another woman. These were short summaries about part two.

By reading all of the short summaries of part two from the vignettes it ends tell me that part two is about men had total control over women. I have observe this because in the vignette called Daughter of Invasion the four Garcia girl’s father ripped apart the speech that Yolanda worked really hard on because he thought it was disrespectful. In this action the man controlled the house hold and the women did not had a chance to say anything. Because after he ripped apart the speech he did not want to hear any reasons or excuses from Yolanda or the girls. It is a sign of controlling rude man. In conclusion, the Garcia has went through many trials in their life that involves men being to controlling.