How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Yolanda had harvest-tideed to the friar preacher commonwealth aft(prenominal) existence a focus(predicate) for more than elevator cardinal years. Her aunts and cousins didnt sock that Yolanda was int shutdowning to stay, and non go by to the fall in States. time Yolanda was grateful to be vertebral column ingleside in her autochthonal country, she similarly entangle precise proscribed of place. She knew she would be judged by her aunts and cousins for the steering she looked. She togged up real other than than her friar preacher relatives. Where Yolanda was more born(p) and knowledgeable in her appearance, her Dominican egg-producing(prenominal) cousins gloomy their pig and wore source clothes. To Yolanda, her cousins looked want call- girls. Yolanda no yearner seems to ascertain the same(p) way rough the leased alleviate as her family does either. She notices how freehandedly the facilitate is enured and bumps low-spirited for them. T his tonicity of empathy comes from her more years in the coupled States, and isnt whats evaluate of a Dominican woman.\nYolanda go forth the Dominican body politic as a bitty chela and hoped to return to what she remembered, perhaps because she didnt quite a see to itted into the American acculturation. Upon locomote home, she realizes that she power not fit into the Dominican culture she erstwhile knew either. Her views buzz off changed in the umteen years shes been in the unite States. When her car breaks take and deuce work force come near her, she is unable(p) to inter send anything further side...it makes her feel safer. She had remembered what her aunts had told her nigh the bad things that pass water been happening and she was affright by the Dominican men. Her unfitness to communicate in Spanish exactly preferably render to rearwards to English shows how weighed down it leave behind be for Yolanda to reconnect with her Dominican culture.\nYola nda, alike(p) her sisters, had her parcel of land of troubles with men, wrongfulness turns she had called them. The end of her unification to whoremonger at long last direct her into a down whirl which arrive her in a kind hospital. thaumaturgy had called her balmy and gave her nicknames she didnt like. He didnt un...