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read the excerpt from "a genetics of justice” by julia alvarez.
during my early teen years in this country, i knew very little about what was actually going on in the dominican republic. whenever ia situación on the island came up, my parents spoke in hushed voices. in december 1960, four months after our arrival, time magazine reported the murder of the three mirabal sisters, who along with their husbands had started the national underground dominican republic. my parents confiscated the magazine. to our many questions about what was going on, my mother always had the ready answer, "en boca cerrada no entran moscas.” no flies fly into a closed mouth. later, i found out that this very saying had been scratched on the lintel of the entrance of the sim's torture center at la cuarenta.

what is the central idea of this paragraph?

a)the author's parents gave the same responses to questions about the dominican republic.
b)the author's parents were afraid to discuss murders or events in the dominican republic.
c)the author had little interest in the politics or events of the dominican republic.
d)the author wanted to focus on life in a new country, not the dominican republic

The answer is B) The author's parents were afraid to discuss murders or events in the Dominican Republic.

The central idea of the excerpt is shown through expressions such as "hushed voices", "No flies fly into a closed mouth", which express the fear the author's parents felt of talking about the facts and, because of that, being associated with them. Since the Dominican Republic was under a dictatorship, people feared being killed by even discussing what was happening to the resistence and the insurgents who were indeed killed by the regime. As it happens in countries under dictatorial regimes, people are tortured and murdered even if there is no evidence of their plotting against the government. Suspicion is enough to have them assassinated.

Julia Alvarez was born in New York on 27 March 1950, when she was 3 months old she was taken to the Dominican Republic and then she came back to the USA when she was 10. She currently resides in the the USA.

After getting a University degree in Philosophy she decided to start her career as a writer. Her first literary work was "Homecoming" a poetry collection book. She is equally versed in narrative and poetry and she writes in both styles. Her most famous work is "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents".

In her Book "A Genetics of Justice" she narrates her own life growing up in the Dominican Republic under the oppressive rule of the Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo to which her own father was suggested to be linked, but not in a good sense, her father was linked in the dictator's assassination, reason why they moved to the USA.

By reading this excerpt, it is quite obvious that:

B)The author's parents were afraid to discuss murders or events in the Dominican Republic.

most likely because of her father involvement against the dictatorship.

everyday, people all over the world are making sacrifices; all for different reasons. some people may choose to do more simple sacrifices, like, "my daughter is receiving an award at school, but i also have an appointment, so i will decide to cancel that appointment to be there with my daughter" although she is cancelling her appointment, she can easily reschedule it, and spend her time with nore important thungs in life: being there with her daughter. this will make her daughter happy too because she is recieveing an award for her hard work, and it brings us happiness when our hard work is noticed and appreciated.

on the other hand, some people dont know when to make a sacrifice, ir bow to make one. well, making a sacrifice is when you do something for someone else other than yourself, for someone else's happiness, not so you can gain something in return. you do it for them, not for you. so, anyone can make a sacrifice, even the most simplest ones, like giving up the tv for a sibling or a sibling with homework, when you could be doing something else. the point is to others, when you can be doing something else. you do it out of the fact that you want to them, not so that it can benefit you.

making sacrifices benefit people in many ways, it can bring a smile to there face knowing someone is willing to and bring kindess. alot of people tend to feel unwanted and that no one is there for them, but if we show kindess and sacrifice the less importnat things in life for the most important things in life, people will once again feel happiness and more at ease knowing that someone is or was there for them, even if it be only once.

hope this , and let me know if there are any typos, it's hard typing on a phone : )

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