Blog Homework #2

After reading, "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents" written by Julia Alvarez, I learned a lot of valuable lessons and could relate a lot to the book. I too, like the Garcia girls, am tied down between two cultures and can obviously notice some substantial barriers between my two cultures and see myself torn between the two because I have to make some radical decisions at times. The thing that I can take away the most from the book, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, by Julia Alvarez is that I definitely noticed and learned more about immigrant parents and how many struggles they will go through just for the better life of their children. I began to think of my own parents while reading and was really thankful and proud of my own parents because they wanted me to have a better education and more chance of success in my life after I grow up and start to live my own life. I think that this will better me down the road because I can always think back when times are bad and know that I have something more to live for and to be inspired by my brave, selfless parents that gave everything up for me. This will greatly impact my life during college because I can decide on a college and education that will really reflect my hard work and endurance that I persevered during my high school studies and can really mirror the hard work of my parents. Overall, the book was filled with multiple messages and lessons to be learned but this was the most evident in my life and what I could take away most to be effected by it each and every day of my life.