Garcia Girls

In the final section to the book, How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accent, the story dates back to the very beginning. The setting is set back in their hometown of the Dominican Republic. This was all before the Garcia family was forced to move to the United States, but it is talking about how they got to be there and the reason behind their migration.
In the first chapter of this part, there are two men from the SIM, or the Dominican secret police, that are looking for Doctor Garcia, or the sisters’ father. It seemed as if they were going to be a problem and they turned out to be. The father was hiding in some closet throughout the house. Since the mother did not want the girls to be part of the trouble, they two oldest were sent to their aunt’s house. After the entire mayhem, the mother had told her daughters to pack up their belongings and one toy that they would take back to the States. And that was when I noticed that the entire story had led up to that point where they mention how they had gotten to the United States and for what reason.
In this final part of the book, we learn that the family had a lot of money since they live with maids in their house caring for them. Throughout the first two parts of the book, we did not know this since it seemed like they didn’t have enough money to get anything due to the fact that they were new to the country. Besides that, the book has a part in which the father had come back from a trip in New York and he had brought his daughters a present: a doll bank. Like all the other toys the girls got, they got bored with them. So Carla decided to give hers to one of the maids, Gladys, for no charge since she wanted it so badly. Although Carla did it out of pure generosity, it resulted in the maid leaving the house for not being able to be trusted.
Finally, the last chapter talks about a cat that had haunted Yolanda for a while. I learned that her past experiences are what inspired her artistic ambition.
Throughout the entire book, I have discussed on the theme of innocence in this story and I still stick by it. This final section of the book has proved that before moving to the States, the girls still held on to their innocence.