Question

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

Answer 1

The author develops the central idea across the paragraphs in the following way:

Alvarez explains how her mother's reaction to her novel provoked a rare moment of peace between them.

The author starts out by saying: "When the novel came out, I decided to go ahead and risk her anger." She is talking about her mother's anger, of course, which means she was expecting her mother to react angrily. Later in the text, she says: "It was one of the few times since l had learned to talk that I did not try to answer my mother back." That definitely means that arguments were common between them, and when she heard her mother praise her for having written the book, while crying, there was a rare moment of peace between the two of them.

Answer 2

Answer: Alvarez explains how her mother's reaction to her novel provoked a rare moment of peace between them.