The Character of Yolanda Garcia in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Acce

The Character of Yolanda Garcia in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and !Yo!â â Â Â â â Julia Alvarez builds up the character of Yolanda Garcia in some extraordinary and comparable manners in her two books How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and its continuation !Yo!. The explanations behind the distinctions in the two portrayals of Yolanda is that there is practically no progression concerning her character in the two books-implying that all the particular subtleties of Yolanda's life given to the peruser in the main book are extraordinary (not proceeded nor expounded upon) in the spin-off. It was practically similar to finding out around two unique characters that coincidentally had a similar family and have moved to the United States from the Dominican Republic. For instance, in the primary book Yolanda goes to graduate school, turns into an instructor, and just shows enthusiasm for composing verse. She additionally weds a man named John after having begun to look all starry eyed at a youngster named Rudy in school. In the second book Yolanda doesn't go to graduate school, truth be told, she nearly doesn't get her four year college education since she absconds with a youngster named Darryl Dubois. She becomes an instructor, however she distributes principally writing short stories and books not verse. Though, the closeness in the two distinct portrayals of Yolanda is that she is certainly absorbed to American culture, yet her Old World qualities and way of life additionally impact her. Â In the two books plainly Yolanda has effectively absorbed to American culture. Not at all like her folks original settlers who never increase a total dominance of the English language, Yolanda experts the language and exceeds expectations in school. In the subsequent book, one of her school educators has the f... ...Old World roots and that its customary qualities despite everything significantly affect her. Yolanda should constantly reconnect with her Old World roots to satisfy her fate of passing on her family's legacy/story to people in the future. Â Works Cited Essential Sources Alvarez, Julia. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. New York: Plume, 1991. - . !Yo!. New York: Plume, 1997. Auxiliary Sources Alvarez, Julia. Something to Declare: Essays. New York: Plume, 1998. Barak, Julie. 'Turning and Turning in the Widening Gyre': A Second Coming into Language in Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, MELUS Spring (1998), http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2278/1_23/53501904/print.jhtml. Gotten to 04/07/2001. The Author Project. Julia Alvarez. http://ahs.aps.edu/authorproject/juliaalvarez.html. Gotten to 04/07/2001. Â