Julia Alvarez
Journal Entry #8
pg. 204-232
Five Comments
1. Everyone in the Garcia family was nervous when the secret police were in the house
2. Laura was interrogated by the secret police
3. The girls had to get come of their clothes and one toy to take to the United States
4. The Garcia lived in adjoining houses
5. The Garcia family was really close , every kid had their own best friend in the family
Four Questions
1. Why were the kids hidden from the police?
2. Why were they looking through the Garcias belongings?
3. Why was Yolanda's friendship with her cousin Mundin discouraged?
4. Why was the coal shed off limits to children?
Three Words
1. Shawls- To cover with or as if with a piece of cloth (pg. 204)
2. Personage- a person of distinction and importance (pg. 207)
3. Tenuous- thin or slender in form, as thread (pg. 212)
Two Literary Techniques
1. Simile-"Like a chain reaction, hand after hand goes up, some holding Russell Stover chocolates " (Alvarez 206).
2. Personification-"Then, in the suffocating darkness..." (Alvarez 212)
One Summary Sentence
1. The secret police that work for Trujillo search the Garcias home, and the Garcia family begins preparing to head to the United States.
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