Which passage from "Names/Nombres"best supports the inference that Alvarez started to write at a young age ?
At the hotel my mother was Missus Alburest, and I was little girl, as in, "Hey, little girl, stop riding the elevator up
and down. It's not a toy
"You know what your friend Shakespeare said, 'A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
The biggest gift was a portable typewriter from my parents for writing my stories and poems
Someday, the family predicted, my name would be well known throughout the United States.
