Question

Read the excerpt from "A Genetics of Justice” by Julia Alvarez.

By the time my mother married my father, 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 friends, whom she had assumed had dropped away of their own accord, turned out to have been disappeared. My father had been lucky. As a young man, he had narrowly escaped to Canada after the plot he had participated in as a student failed. This was to be the first of two escapes. That same year, 1937, El Generalísimo 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 of this excerpt?

Answer 1

The central idea of the excerpt, "A Genetics of Justice” is Alvarez shows that refusing to obey Trujillo's requests could be dangerous.

What is "A Genetics of Justice”?

It's a story of living under dictatorship. The story is about a girl and her mother who were living under a totalitarian government in Dominican republican.

The options are attached:

A- Alvarez shows that the parades were embarrassing but were not a serious matter.

B- Alvarez shows that Trujillo enjoyed it when people paid attention to him.

C- Alvarez shows that refusing to obey Trujillo's requests could be dangerous.

D- Alvarez shows that women played an important part in political life.

Thus, the correct option is C.

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Answer 2

Answer:

C

Explanation:

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