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.
SYNONYMY NOTE: yield implies a giving way under the pressure or compulsion of force, entreaty, persuasion, etc. [to yield to demands]; capitulate implies surrender to a force that one has neither the strength nor will to resist further [to capitulate to the will of the majority]; succumb stresses the weakness of the one who gives way or the power and irresistibility of that which makes one yield [she succumbed to his charms]; relent suggests the yielding or softening of one in a dominant ...