Question
Read the excerpts from the beginning middie, and
end of "A Genetics of Justice" by Jula Alvarez
Passage A
Perhaps because I was spared, at ten, from the
dictatorship my parents endured most of their lives,
often imagine what it must have been like for them
growing up under the absolute rule of Generalisimo
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo.
Passage B
1 knew very little about what was actually going on in
the Dominican Republic. Whenever la situación on the
island came up, my parents spoke in hushed voices
Passage C
How does the author develop the central idea across
these excerpts?
• Alvarez shows how, throughout her life, she
learned about the dictatorship from her parents
fear of and responses to it
O Alvarez wrate about life under the dictatorship,
even though doing so ruined her relationship with
her mother
Alvarez shows how her lifelong fascination with her
ents' life under the dictatorship was the basis for
© Alvarez shows how her mother counted on her to
someday write a novel about the dictatorship
Answer
Alvarez develops the central idea across these excerpts by showing how her lifelong fascination with her parents' life under the dictatorship was the basis for her writing "A Genetics of Justice".