Julia Alvarez
Journal Entry #5
pg. 117- 145
Five Comments
1. There was a small revolution in the Dominican Republic
2. The girls wanted to go back to the Dominican Republic because things weren't going so well in the Dominican Republic.
3. The girls were sent to boarding schools, where they were kissing boys and smoking cigarettes
4. The mother had a problem with the girls wanting to become American
5. The father was considering returning with the family to Dominican Republic
Four Questions
1. What revolution was going on in the Dominican Republic?
2. Why did the other kids at school think that the Garcia girls were related to the dictator?
3. Why would Laura think that she was a failure as an American mother?
4. Why was the girls mother trying to invent something?
Three Words
1. Exhorted- to make urgent appeal (pg. 120)
2. Contraception- any practice that prevents conception during sexual activity (pg. 121)
3. Daiquiris- An iced cocktail of rum, lime or lemon juice, and sugar (pg. 124)
Two literary Techniques
1. Personification- " But the spectre of delivering a speech brown-nosing the teachers jammed her imagination" (Alvarez 138).
2. Allusion- " Laura and her daughter would take the escalator, marveling at the moving staircase, she teasing them that this might be the ladder Jacob saw with the angels moving up and down to heaven" (Alvarez 130).
One Sentence Summary
1. The girls were growing, they were struggling trying to find how to stay true to their culture and how to fit in to the American culture.
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