Question
Read the excerpt from "A Genetics of Justice by Julia
Alvarez.
By the time my mother married my tather, however, she
knew all about the true nature of the dictatorship.
Thousands had lost their lives in failed attempts to return
the country to democracy. Family trends, whom she
had assumed had dropped away of their own accord,
turned out to have been disappeared. My lather had
been lucky. As a young man, he had narrowly escaped
to Canada after the plot he had participated in as a
student talled. This was to be the first of two escapes.
That same year, 1931, El Generalisimo ordered the
overnight slaughter of some eighteen thousand Haitians,
who had come across the border to work on sugarcane
plantations for slave wages.
What is the central idea or this excerpt?
The dictatorship resulted in many deaths.
• It was possible for people to escape to Canada.
O Many people fought for a democratic nation.
The author's family was unusually lucky.
Answer
The author's family was unusually lucky to have narrowly escaped the dictatorship and its consequences.