How The Garcia Girls Lose Their Accent Summary

Although an unpopular opinion teenagers today should not read How the Garcia girls lost their accents by Julia Alvarez because of the confusing story line, poor transitions between stories, its characters are consubstantial and its portrayal of the immigrant experience being somewhat inaccurate One of the reasons not to read the book is its confusing storyline, the book is written in reverse chronological order at the start of the book, the four girls are grown women; some married, some divorced, some have kids, etc. They keep getting younger throughout the book so that at the end they were kids back in their homeland, the Dominican Republic. The author did this to make the reader experience the book as an immigrant; always going
The four girls attended private schools and had tutors to get rid of their accents Their father was a doctor who earned a good amount of money and their mother didn’t work. This is not the typical immigrant experience, most are very poor, so they don’t have the money to attend private schools or get tutors to get rid of their accents. Most parents have to work in factories and other low paying jobs many have two to three jobs. The Garcias were overprotected by their parents and had a lot of opportunities that the normal immigrant doesn’t.

In conclusion, teenagers today shouldn't read this book because it has a confusing story line, poor transitions between stories, its characters are consubstantial and its portrayal of the immigrant experience being somewhat