Question

She had named me, her second of four daughters, after herself—so we shared the same name. Of all her babies, she reports, I was the best behaved, until I learned to talk. Then, I would not shut up. I always had to answer her back when I disagreed with her. Childhood was rocky, but adolescence was a full-fledged war.

–“A Genetics of Justice,”

Julia Alvarez

What is the central idea in this paragraph?

Julia was named after her mother.
Julia and her mother often disagreed.
Julia was the best behaved of all the babies.
Julia was proud to share her mother’s name.

Answer 1

Answer: Julia and her mother often disagreed.

Explanation: The line "adolescence was a full-fledged war", indicates that she and her mother had a rough time since they kept disagreeing with each other.

Answer 2

Answer:

The central idea of the given paragraph in the question is found to be option (b) Julia and her mother disagreed very often.

Explanation:

The given text is an excerpt taken from the novel "A Genetics of Justice", written by Julia Alvarez in an autobiographical way.

• Imagine you and your family living under a cruel dictator and having no freedom. Julia Alvarez's A Genetics of Justice is a novel about a girl and her family living under the dictator of the Dominican government's totalitarian rule. In this novel, you'll learn about her journey and how she became a woman today.
• "Flies never fly in a closed mouth" is a quote drawn by her mother through the text. Novel also describes dictators and  unusual everyday life. Alvarez and her family had a lot of trauma, given that they live in the Dominican Republic and live under a dictator. Throughout all that, Alvarez's parents raised a daughter who told her story in a fashionable case and told the story as it was.

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