After finishing the second paper clip part of “How the Garcia Girls Lose Their Accents” by Julia Alvarez, I realize that this part of the book was more intense than the first part. This bring me to the conclusion that as the story goes on, the intensity of the book increases. This book is in reverse chronological order from when the characters in the book were older to when the they were younger. I thought at first that as the Garcia girls get older, the story would tend to get more intense, but this was not the case. Instead, the intense moments tend to happen more when they were young. This allow me to foreshadow that the third part of the book is going to be more intense than the first and second part of the book.
The reason why think Julia Alvarez made it more intense as the Garcia Girls are younger because she want to emphasize the fact that when people are young, our sense of feeling is more more sensitive to things that are around us because when we are young we don't really have much experience in life. As we grow up, we get more and more experiences in life which means things won't cause as much intensity towards us anymore. Our experiences in life is enough for people to get over anything that seems intense. In way, I feel like this ties into innocence. When we are young, our innocence is still there but as we grow older and receive more experiences in life, that sense of innocence begins to disappear. People that are innocence tends to feel more intense when certain moments happen to them which shows that when the Garcia Girls are older, nothing really intensify them anymore because of the fact that they had lost their innocence in America. Also, I feel like this book is mainly about how the Garcia girls is losing their "roots" and how they are becoming more closer to being a American because the American culture and their culture is so different. As they continue to live in America, they begin to slip away from their roots.
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