Memory also plays a big part of the book, you may think what does it have to do with it so here it goes.
After the Garcia girls lost their innocence the girls neede to return to their childhood memories in an attempt to bring some sense into them about their present realities and what they are now going through. The only memory Sofia carries with her is in which her Haitian maid gives the girls a voodoo goodbye befor they leave. Sofia doesnt feel good about this at all because this is the one and only memory she has of her childhood to recunstruct her bicultural life now that she has left for the United States.
With not mayn childhood memories to help you out, or to remind you of your past cultures what would you do in a total different country? How would you feel being in Sofias shoes? Do you agree with memory being a big part of the book?
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I think that if you went to a foreign country and you had no clue about your history in the country you were born and raised in, than I guess that the worst possible thing that can happen to you is that your traditions and cultures will die away. If I was Sofia, I would be very afraid that I would forget about the Dominican Republic. I do agree with the memory part in this case because without their memories, there would be no struggle between right and wrong, there would just be wrong.
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I think that unlike the other four sisters, Sofia feels a lack of connection with their native country and culture. Carla, Sandi, and Yolanda spent years in the Dominican Republic while Sofia only spent some of the earliest years of her childhood there. I think she probably was curious about what life was like in their native country.
ReplyDeleteIf I haven't had many childhood memories and I was in a different country, I wouldn't know how to act because I don't know about my traditions and history in the country, I would just go along with the flow and try to learn little by little everyday. I feel that Sofia feels this way because she is younger than the rest of her sisters and she has a lot more to learn because she has only been in the DR for a little amount of time. Yes, I do agree with memory being a big part of this book because it shows how they grew up from doing different things that they probably wouldn't have done if they were in the DR.
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