Garcia Girls Reflection 2

I felt that the second part of the How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents was interesting, but somewhat messed up. It started off interesting, because it talked about the time period in the United States where there were a lot of hippies and drugs were not as restricted as they are now. 

Also there was a lot of racial tension between the Americans and the immigrants that had just arrived from the own country to the united states. I felt that it was messed up because they were being mean to someone just because they could not speak English properly because it was not their first language, and I know how that feels because English is not my first language either. If you grow up speaking a certain language and then you suddenly have to learn another one, then it is extremely hard because every language has different words and different ways of pronouncing each word. I dislike it when people make fun of how someone talks because they are not used to speaking in another language and are more used to speaking in their native language. 

This part of the book was also creepy because of the child molester that stalked kids in cars and targeted little kids that were alone. I felt that he had scarred Yolanda for life and that he was someone that should not be left in the streets. He acted creepily to Yolanda, and I think that he gave her a bad impression of American men and that he was one of the many bad examples of males in her life. 

I think that she has a bad impression of the police and that general branch of the government. I feel that was because she still remembers the times in the Dominican republic where the police were bad people that should be avoided at all costs because of they could and would do to you if they found you guilty of something. It was kind of sad because law enforcement is supposed to be something that kept you safe and gave you a sense of security in your life, not destroy your sense of security and make you feel threatened.