The second part of How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents starts to get less confusing than the first part of the book. I didn’t really like the book because I didn’t understand what was going on at all, but now, it starts making a little more sense to me.
The second part of this book is all about how the Garcia girls started to grow up in the Unites States and how they are letting go of their life in the Dominican Republic which we don’t know about yet. The girls seem as if they are now teenagers which explain most of the changes that are happening between them. America had an effect on the girls which made them do things like the teenagers of today.
The first chapter talks all about how the sisters were becoming more Americanized. When they go to their hometown again for the summer, their mother comes by for a visit and she is angry with the girls. It just so happens that their mother had found a bag of marijuana in the girls’ room and she wanted to know what was up with that. The youngest daughter Sofia stepped up and said that it was hers’. The mom didn’t want the father to find out about this, so she decided that the three other girls would go back to the United States and Sofia would have the choice of going back and attending a Catholic school or staying in the Dominican Republic. She decided to stay.
By the winter time, the three sisters went back to the place where Sofia was at and they heard that their sister had changed a lot. They found out that Sofia was seeing this boy who was also their cousin named, Manuel Gustavo. After they had met him the girls thought that he was too demanding and that all he wanted was to have sex. In their plan to get rid of him and get Sofia to go back home, the sisters had tricked them because the girls were never to be left unwatched and that is what they did. Sofia was left alone with her boyfriend. She got caught and got in trouble. She was mad at her sisters for doing that to her.
The theme of this part of the book was to show how the girls were already growing up and how America had grown on the Garcia girls.
