Read the passage from "Names/Nombres" by Julia Alvarez.

When we arrived in New York City, our names changed almost immediately.
At Immigration, the officer asked my father, Mister Elbures, if he had anything to declare. My father shook his head no, and we were waved through.

I was too afraid we wouldn't be let in if l corrected the man's pronunciation, but I said our name to myself, opening my mouth wide for the organ blast of the a, trilling my tongue for the drumroll of the r, All-vah-rrr-es! How could anyone get Elbures out of that orchestra of sound?

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."

Which theme is conveyed in this passage?

The Alvarez family struggles to find their new identity in the United States.
The members of the Alvarez family need to change their names to fit in.
All of the members of the family find new identities by taking on new names.
The Alvarez name represents the family’s foreignness in their new country.

the author talks about immediately changing their names upon arriving in New York City. The immigration officer mispronounces their name as "Elbures," and even though the narrator, the daughter, wants to correct the pronunciation, she refrains from doing so out of fear. The passage reflects the struggle of the Alvarez family to navigate and adapt to their new identity in the United States. The mispronunciation of their name at immigration and the subsequent changes at the hotel highlight the challenges and adjustments they face as immigrants, emphasizing the theme of identity struggle in their new environment.