"How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Avarez and "Something to Declare" by Julia Avarez.
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Julia Alvarez develops the character of Yolanda Garcia in some different and similar ways in her two books How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and its sequel Yo . The reasons for the differences in the two characterizations of Yolanda is that there is almost no continuity concerning her character in the two books--meaning that all the specific details of Yolanda's life given to the reader in the first book are different (not continued nor
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Cited Alvarez, Julia. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. New York: Plume, 1991. - - - . Yo . New York: Plume, 1997. Alvarez, Julia. Something to Declare: Essays. New York: Plume, 1998. Barak, Julie. 'Turning and Turning in the Widening Gyre': A Second Coming into Language in Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, MELUS Spring (1998), http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2278/1_23/53501904/print.jhtml. The Author Project. Julia Alvarez. http://ahs.aps.edu/authorproject/juliaalvarez.html.
Cited Alvarez, Julia. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. New York: Plume, 1991. - - - . Yo . New York: Plume, 1997. Alvarez, Julia. Something to Declare: Essays. New York: Plume, 1998. Barak, Julie. 'Turning and Turning in the Widening Gyre': A Second Coming into Language in Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, MELUS Spring (1998), http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2278/1_23/53501904/print.jhtml. The Author Project. Julia Alvarez. http://ahs.aps.edu/authorproject/juliaalvarez.html.