Read this excerpt from “Names/Nombres” by Julia Alvarez. Which sentences support the idea that the author’s family helped her ad
just to life in the United States? We moved into our new apartment building, the super called my father Mister Alberase, and the neighbors who became mother’s friends pronounced her name Jewlee-ah instead of Hoo-lee-ah. I, her namesake, was known as Hoo-lee-tah at home. But at school I was Judy or Judith, and once an English teacher mistook me for Juliet.
It took me a while to get used to my new names. I wondered if I shouldn’t correct my teachers and new friends. But my mother argued that it didn’t matter. “You know what your friend Shakespeare said, ‘A rose by any other name would smell as sweet’.” My family had gotten into the habit of calling any famous author “my friend” because I had begun to write poems and stories in English class.
My family had gotten into the habit of calling any famous author “my friend” because I had begun to write poems and stories in English class.
Explanation:
The text shows how the author has had certain difficulties with the American culture to which she should adapt. For this reason, her parents formed strategies for her to become more comfortable with the new culture and to take pleasure in some activity, so they started calling the poets "my friend" so they would show support for the fact that she started write poems and help her better adapt to the United States.
