So group, we all know that the four Garcia Girls are very respectful and loving to their father, but tell me, what happens if they're not? What are the outcomes, why do you think they feel these emotions? Post one example of a time this happened and why it happened.
In the chapter "Daughter of Invention", Yolanda and her father get in a fight after her father does not approve of the speech she has written for the teachers. He ripped the speech into pieces and threw them all around.
ReplyDeleteOn page 147, Yolanda says "Chapita! You're just another Chapita!" This sends her father racing after her down the hall until she gets to her room and locks the door. He tries to push his weight onto the door to open it, but it doesn't work. Based on the actions her father was making, I assume that if he had gotten to her before she locked the door, he would have smacked her or beat her in some way.
(Chapita was the nickname of a Dominican dictator, Trujillo, who her father had lost his brothers to.)
I had noticed that in "The Kiss" on pages 30-31, Sofia and her father gets into a conflict about bringing her husband over to her father's birthday. I would quote the conversation, but there is a usage of inapropriate language that I would rather not repeat. Even though he was Sofia's father, she still sweared at him and showed him great disrespect because she didn't get what she wanted, and that shows characterization.
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