The first part of the Gacia Girls

    After spending one week to read the first part of the Garcia Girls, and as a class, we have a big discussion about the annotations. As everyone is saying that the book is too confusing. Right, somewhere in the book shows a lot misunderstands and confusions in Spanish; especially the relationships and emotional each girl has, they really drive me crazy. This book's orders are divided into three parts-- from the present to the past, from the past to the past which is more early. In the discussion today, our group kind of talk about how the three different personality the four sisters have changed, and we kind of concentrate onto Yolanda. First of all, we talk about how Yolanda get crazy. We were sort of saying Yolanda feels she is getting crazy which she could not control herself sometimes as well. We said that the most reason is that she keeps  having problems that deal with her boyfriends, and she gets crazy because of the sexist. By the way, this is a book which has many sexist stuff. Another important thing that we most focus on is the part which Yolanda's boy friend is writing some porn in his class. I was asking this question as the annotation: Did he ever think about Yolanda's feeling before he starts to write the porn to the class as Yolanda's boy friend? My seatmates had no answers that could response. But for myself, I think her boyfriend did that just because he wants to make Yolanda's friends feel shame of Yolanda and Yolanda begins to hate him. I do not know about the specific reasons why he would do this just because this book is so confusing. So far so good, I think this book is sort of confusing us because it starts at the present, and going back to recall the stuff happens to those girls. My goal for next part of the book is to fully understand what cause or what make the four girls change their personality based by their experiences.