Julia Alvarez
Journal Entry 2
pg. 31-58
Five Comments
1. Carla was the first one born, Sandra was the second, Yolanda was third one, and Sofia was the last
2. Sofia had ran away from home to marry a German
3. Since Sofia ran away from home, Carlos, her father didn't speak her
4. Laura their mother identified them by the colors that they wore; Carla wore yellow, Sandra wore blue, Yolanda wore pink, and Sofia wore white
5. The mother always had a story about each of the girls to tell on special ocassions, like the one about Carla and the red sneakers
Four Questions
1. How did Sofia get away with running away with her boyfriend to Columbia?
2. Why would Sofia kiss her father in his ear?
3. Why couldn't their mother remember their names?
4. Did the girls mother have a bad memory?
Three words
1. Retentive: having power or the capacity to retain (p. 41)
2. Providential: opportune, fortunate or lucky (p. 44)
3. Dissension: strong disagreement; a contention or quarrel;discord (p. 44)
4. Prophecy: of the nature of or containing prophecy (p. 46)
Two Literary Terms
1. Onomatopoeia- "The buzz of talk was punctuated now and then by a crackling..." (Alvarez, 46).
2. Simile- "She wanted to look like those twiggy models" (Alvarez, 52)
One Sentence Summary
Even though the girls were all raised under the same roof, they are all very different.
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