How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Journal 10

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Julia Alvarez
Journal Entry 10
pg. 262-281

Five Comments
1. Yolanda started playing the drum when her grandmother bought her one
2. People in the Dominican Republic think that snow is wonderful, that's the grandmother told Yolanda that if she was good that she would be able to see snow in the US
3. Yolanda didn't go to the coal shed because the maid told her that their were spirits in there
4. Yolanda overcame her fear by going into the coal shed
5. Yolanda put her favorite kitten in her drum

Four Questions
1. How do you play the drum like an adult?
2. Why did Yolanda like to go into the coal shed?
3. Why were kittens in the shed?
4. Why would the mothe cat haunt her?

Three Words
1. Offertory- the part of a service in which offerings are made(p. 262)
2. Repetoire- The list of dramas, operas, parts, pieces etc. that a company actor, singer or the like is prepared to perform (p. 264)
3. Apocalyptic- prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom (p. 272)

Two Literary Techniques
1. Metaphor-" The class gazed dreamily at the bank half-expecting as if to shoot up to the ceiling un a puff of smoke" (Alvarez 262).
2. Simile- "My father unlocked the bottom and out came a few less than a hundred pennies, and he kindly made up the difference and gave me a big silver dollar that looked more like jewelry than money " (Alvarez 262).

One Summary Sentence
1. Yolanda was trying to learn how to play the drum and was taken care of the kittens that she found in the coal shed.