Lost Identities In the novel How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez brings to mind an important topic in regards to all adolescents, worldwide, and that is a sense of identity. ... The Garcia girls not only have to learn and discover who they are, but they have to do so in another culture, another world. The girls end up doing so quite well, but how they got there was not so easy. ... In these ways, Alvarez depicts, through the course of her novel, the separate identities that these young girls came to adopt as their own. ... The reader understands how the girls interact wit...

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• Grade Level: High School

(He would later serve as the antagonizing factor in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent and the murderous protagonist in Las Mariposas.) ... It is the separation from her native country, the Dominican Republic, which serves as a backdrop for the holistically autobiographical novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent. ... The same edict is echoed in another praiseful review, "The Garcia girls may indeed have lost their accents, but in her first book of fiction, Julia Alvarez has not yet quite found a voice (Rifkind 3)." ... That poet at Lucinda's party the night before argued that...

• Word Count: 2799
• Approx Pages: 11
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• Grade Level: High School