In a reverse chronological sequence of events, Julia Alvarez takes her readers through the immigration experience of the four Garcia sisters: Carla, Sandra, Yolanda and Sofia in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents.n a reverse chronological sequence of events, Julia Alvarez takes her readers through the immigration experience of the four Garcia sisters: Carla, Sandra, Yolanda and Sofia in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents.
You seem not to have understood the meaning of succumb. If you plan on succumbing to your wifeâs desire of moving to a new house. - You can't plan on succumbing to something. You might plan not to buy a new house, but then succumb to your wife's persistent entreaties to buy one. Succumbing to bad habits is not just easy, but also tempting. - Doesn't make sense. Succumbing is a consequence of temptation, there aren't two parallel processes.
Susurrous derives from the Latin noun susurrus, meaning a hum or a whisper, and may be a distant relative of swarm (think of the collective hum of a beehive). Susurrus also occurs as an English noun, with the meaning a whispering or rustling sound.. Of the two English words, the noun is the older (it debuted in 1826); susurrous came onto the scene about thirty years later.