Floor Show In Julia Alvarez's novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, the section entitled Floor Show, fits thematically with the rest of the novel in the theme of assimilation and how it manifests itself in terms of rebellion and conformity. In this case, the Garcia girls rebel against their parents, and strive to conform to the ways of their peers. There are many instances throughout the novel where the Garcia girls are faced with social pressures that force them to ignore their culture and attempt to measure up to American standards. ... This earnest attempt at assimilat...

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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...

• Word Count: 809
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• Grade Level: High School