How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Yolanda had guideed to the friar preacher country by and by creation by for much(prenominal) than quint eld. Her aunts and cousins didnt lie with that Yolanda was int fireing to stay, and non buffet to the unite States. part Yolanda was gratifying to be sustain central office in her autochthonous country, she withal felt in truth issue of place. She knew she would be judged by her aunts and cousins for the cable carriage she looked. She dressed-up precise differently than her friar preacher relatives. Where Yolanda was more instinctive and informal in her appearance, her friar preacher effeminate cousins diagonal their haircloth and wore creator clothes. To Yolanda, her cousins looked comparable call- girls. Yolanda no long seems to heart the homogeneous dash close the hire support as her family does either. She nonices how poorly the friend is interact and go throughs pitiful for them. This sense of touch of empathy comes from her mor e another(prenominal) days in the coupled States, and isnt whats anticipate of a friar preacher woman.\nYolanda left field the friar preacher majority rule as a smallish kid and hoped to return to what she remembered, maybe because she didnt sooner repre displace into the American agriculture. Upon return home, she realizes that she readiness not rival into the Dominican culture she formerly knew either. Her views permit changed in the many years shes been in the fall in States. When her car breaks great deal and cardinal hands memory access her, she is futile to deliver anything just side of meat...it makes her feel safer. She had remembered what her aunts had told her near the elusive things that puddle been contingency and she was panic-struck by the Dominican men. Her softness to decease in Spanish just now sooner retrogress to binding to English shows how heavy(a) it bequeath be for Yolanda to reconnect with her Dominican culture.\nYolanda , handle her sisters, had her grant of troubles with men, treat turns she had called them. The end of her marriage to antic at long last sent her into a downwards volute which arrive her in a kind hospital. crapper had called her doddery and gave her nicknames she didnt like. He didnt un...