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    <title>How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Group at eNotes</title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Liberty comes to live with the family because she is given to the family...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Liberty comes to live with the family because she is given to the family by a very well trusted friend of the family, Mister Victor. It is a gift and all of the rest of the family wants to have the dog. Liberty runs away from the narrator and the narrator hopes that the dog will still be there when she comes to visit her country. You see, her mother wouldn't allow her to keep the dog when they went to the U.S, so the narrator became afraid...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[how does liberty come to live with the family?what happens to liberty at...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[how does liberty come to live with the family?what happens to liberty at the end]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 7 Oct 2009 16:55:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Rafael L. Trujillo ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 until 1961...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Rafael L. Trujillo ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 until 1961 when he was assassinated. He was president between 1930 and 1938, and then again from 1942 until 1952. The rest of the time he was actually an unelected military dictator. During this time he enjoyed absolute power. He had a few different nicknames. He was called El Jefe, or The Chief. He was also called El Benefactor (The Benefactor). His time as ruler of the Dominical...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[General Rafael Trujillo ruled in the Dominican Republic from 1930 until...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[General Rafael Trujillo ruled in the Dominican Republic from 1930 until he was assassinated in 1961. He was President part of that time, for 8 years from 1930 to 1938, and again from 1942 to 1952. The rest of the time he was a military dictator. His nickname was “El Jefe” (the chief). Trujillo’s regime was brutal, especially as opposition to him increased. His secret police operation was very bloody.
Truijillo had an obsessive hatred of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 8 Feb 2009 20:07:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Who is General Rapael Trujilla?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Who is General Rapael Trujilla?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 8 Feb 2009 18:58:24 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Of the people, Alvarez is very affectionate and loyal.  To Trujillo and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Of the people, Alvarez is very affectionate and loyal.  To Trujillo and his henchmen, she is justifiably critical, exposing the corruption of the regime and its malevolent leader.  As the Garcia girls try to assimilate into American life, there is plenty of nostaglia to be had for their homeland as evidenced in the opening chapter, when Yoland returns to the island for a visit:The late sun shifts through the bogainvillea trained to climb...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:27:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The book How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents would not be considered...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/garcia-girls/q-and-a/quot-how-garcia-girls-lost-their-accents-quot-40845</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The book How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents would not be considered a novel.  It is a group of short stories compiled in such a way that the reader follow the &quot;Girls&quot; from one story to the next.  I have read the book and it is quiet good.  It give the reader a good sense of what it was like for the girls growing up.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:58:10 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Is &quot;How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents&quot; actually a novel?...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Is &quot;How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents&quot; actually a novel? I've heard it several times from my professors that it is not. ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:24:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the book How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, what is realized...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the book How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, what is realized about their culture, and how did Julia Alvarez accomplish this?  Examples?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 1 Jun 2008 11:25:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Define truth and beauty in regards to the various aspects of truth and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Define truth and beauty in regards to the various aspects of truth and beauty in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents.  ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:22:18 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The second oldest sister, Sandra Garcia de la Torre, affectionately...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/garcia-girls/q-and-a/which-four-sisters-was-more-like-their-swedish-17993</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The second oldest sister, Sandra Garcia de la Torre, affectionately called &quot;Sandi&quot;, is the lightest-skinned.  She is considered to be &quot;the pretty one&quot;, with &quot;peaches and ice cream skin&quot; and blue eyes. Sandi's fairer coloring gives her more prestige under both the Anglo-American value system as well as the subtle racial stereotyping of her own culture; her relatives covet and praise her light skin which they...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 7 Mar 2008 21:57:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In &quot;How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents,&quot; which of the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In &quot;How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents,&quot; which of the four sisters was more light-skinned like their Swedish ancestor?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 7 Mar 2008 19:02:24 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is Alvarez saying about the Dominicans in How the Garcia Girls...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is Alvarez saying about the Dominicans in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 6 Feb 2008 05:47:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Throughout the story you hear about the different situations that the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Throughout the story you hear about the different situations that the family members go through. I have to agree with the saying regarding the snowflakes but i would also include the fact that nobody goes through the same thing regardless of how close they are to one another.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:20:45 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What Alvarez means is two things:  1) losing the ability to speak the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/garcia-girls/q-and-a/what-symbolic-meaning-that-alvarez-states-by-quot-12075</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What Alvarez means is two things:  1) losing the ability to speak the original language and 2) losing his identity which is attached to the native language. &#160;]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 16:34:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the symbolic meaning that Alvarez states by &quot;losing your...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/garcia-girls/q-and-a/what-symbolic-meaning-that-alvarez-states-by-quot-12075</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What is the symbolic meaning that Alvarez states by &quot;losing your language&quot;?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 12:43:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The author of &quot;How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents&quot; is...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/garcia-girls/q-and-a/who-aurthur-how-garcia-girls-lost-their-accents-5153</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The author of &quot;How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents&quot; is Julia Alvarez. ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:19:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[There is the saying that &quot;there are no two snowflakes alike&quot;,...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/garcia-girls/q-and-a/alvarez-closes-by-comparing-snowflakes-indiviual-8243</link>
        <description><![CDATA[There is the saying that &quot;there are no two snowflakes alike&quot;, and that certainly applies to people, too. Every person is an individual with unique qualities that separate them from everyone else.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:45:41 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It's been a while since I've read this, but as I recall the Garcia girls...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It's been a while since I've read this, but as I recall the Garcia girls are experiencing quite a bit of culture shock when they make their move from the Dominican Republic to New York City.I would think that being &quot;dolls in mourning&quot; would refer to the masks they feel they have to wear to &quot;fit in&quot; to American culture while internally they pine for home (thus the &quot;mourning&quot;).As for being &quot;wide-eyed&quot; I...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:24:08 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How do descriptions of the girls being &quot;like dolls in...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/garcia-girls/q-and-a/quot-like-dolls-mourning-quot-wideeyed-classroom-9311</link>
        <description><![CDATA[How do descriptions of the girls being &quot;like dolls in mourning&quot; &amp; living in a &quot;wide-eyed classroom&quot; add to understanding?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:29:06 PST</pubDate>
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