Name: Yi Ming Sofyia XueLLWIII Honors Literary Analysis –How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents –Outline Template In order to better prepare your essays, you will be writing a formal outline. Be sure to have it typed and double-spaced. Your outlines should include only the most pertinent information. The only complete sentences should be your thesis statement, topic and clincher sentences, and whatever is a complete sentence in your quotes. **This is just a guide to help you organize your writing. I. Introduction A.Any immigrant will have their own struggles in adjusting to their new country and home. B.In Julia Alvarez’s classic novel,How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents, readers follow the Garcias on their journey to assimilating in America from the Dominican Republic.
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C.Julia Alvarez uses the Garcia family to show that cultural assimilation causes confusion of identity, gender roles, and language. II. Body Paragraph #1
A.Through the Garcias, Alvarez writes that cultural assimilation creates a confusion of one’s own identity. B.Quote #1: “It was a girl who could pass as American, with soft blue eyes and fair skin… Being pretty she would not have to go back to where she came from. Pretty spoke both languages” (Alvarez 177-178) 1.Context: bathroom on the dinner outing with the Fannings; looks into the mirror and sees pretty American girl, instead of beautiful Dominican girl. 2.Speaker: Sandra, first person 3.Significance: Sandra has been told, since she was young, that she was the prettiest out of her sisters and that she has the “good blood” in the family, stemming from her Swedish great-great grandmother. This gives her the impression that being pretty is
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