Question

Please hurry

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.