How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Journal 9

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Julia Alvarez
Journal Entry 9
pg. 233- 261

Five Comments
1. Dona Charito was the girls art teacher
2. Sandra was really good at drawing
3. Sandra took art classes so that she could stay out of trouble
4. Sandra was a very nosy, was at the window listening to a converstion between Dona Charito and a man
5. Sandra had broken her arm

Four Questions
1. Why did the girls take art classes?
2. Why did Sandra draw cats all the time?
3. How was Sandra's arm re-broken?
4. Why was the man after trying to grab Sandra?

Three Words
1. Guttural- of or pertaining to the throat (pg. 235)
2. Primitivist- qualities or style characterizing primitive art (pg. 236)
3. Manes- the souls of the dead;shades (pg. 241)

Two Literary Techniques
1. Alusion- "Dona Charito took the lot of us native children in hand Saturday mornings nine to twelve to put Art into us like Jesus into the heathen" (Alvarez 235).
2. Simile-"Our visit began with a tour of the house which was more like a museum than a house" (Alvarez 241).

One Summary Sentence
1. Dona Charito was the art teacher for the girls and their cousins.