Sunday, November 8, 2009
Dominican Repuplican Traditions
So group, tell me, we have been reading a lot about the garcia girls at hom when they were adults in part one. So can you tell me some of the traditions they did that you found intresting. Why did you like it, would you like to try something like that? Please explain, thanks.
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In the first chapter of the book, they are throwing a party for Yolanda. She is an adult in this section and is visiting the Dominican Republic from the United States. A family tradition is shown when they light the candles to her cake and sing. They sing "Bienvenida a ti" to the tune of "Happy Birthday". I though this was interesting because it is very similar to American tradition, even though it is in another country.
ReplyDeleteThis tradition is a little universal, but here I go. In, "The Kiss" page 24, the nanorrator tells us about how the girls always visited their father on his birthday. This is actually a very big tradition because they live very far away from their father, and to come to him every year must mean that they really loved and respected him.
ReplyDeleteI thought that was intresting because it isn't easy to visit someone from a far away didtance all the time, even if it was your own father. Take Sofia for example; even if she had a grudge on her father for being scolded at for bringing her family over, she still respected her father and tried to have a good time.
Andrew Villa