Book Post: How the Garcia Girls lost Their Accents

       Throughout history, women have been considered one group which was looked down upon because of their abilities of doing things. Men have taken advantage of women in the past by scarring them into doing as they were told; Many women were way too obedient to the commands, demands, and to the needs of their husbands or to men in general. In Julia Alvarez's national bestseller book, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, the first part of the book continuously talked about women and their ineractions with the opposite sex, men.
        Yolanda,  one of the four sisters introduced in the story, had a remarkabe experience when she was introduced to a male character, Rudy Elmenhurst the third, and their college romance was based on sexual temptation, at least to Rudy the man of the relationship. Throughout the relationship he always complained that she couldnt keep his intrest because he couldnt have interact with her on a sexual level. They broke up and five years later met again. Still, he wanted to have intercourse with Yolanda; this shows that he still, even after five years, only wanted to get on more than a social level with her, a sign that men mostly think of women as someone they can get pleasure from.
     Yolanda's father, a traditionally old fashioned man, wanted badly sons to carry on his name and instead got four daughters.  He seems as though he still isnt over the fact that hehas no sons and holds a grudge toward his daughters, making them feel like they are not worthy enough for his sentimental love. He shames them for not being boys and for not doing the things men could do.
      So throughout the first part of the story men have been introduced as the "bad guys", the ones who keep women for feeling worthy of being loved.