Read the excerpts from the beginning, middle, and end of
"a genetics of justice" by julia alvarez.
how does the author develop the central idea across these
excerpts?
passage a:
perhaps because i was spared, at ten, from the dictatorship
my parents endured most of their lives, i often imagine what
it must have been like for them growing up under the
absolute rule of generalísimo rafael leonidas trujillo.
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alvarez shows how, throughout her life, she learned
about the dictatorship from her parents' fear of and
responses to it
alvarez wrote about life under the dictatorship, even
though doing so ruined her relationship with her mother.
alvarez shows how her lifelong fascination with her
parents' life under the dictatorship was the basis for her
writing.
alvarez shows how her mother counted on her to
someday write a novel about the dictatorship.
passage b:
i knew very little about what was actually going on in the
dominican republic. whenever la situación on the island
came up, my parents spoke in hushed voices.
passage c:
then i started to work on my second novel. my mother
heard from one of my sisters that i was writing about the