Question

excerpt from you dont have to say you love me excerpt from you dont have to say you love me by sherman alexie, 2017 in early - september 1980, my father drove my big brother, arnold, and me from our home on the spokane indian reservation twenty miles south to my first day of eighth - grade in reardan, washington. i became the only spokane indian in the reardan school district, which was 98 percent white. to make the decision of my own to leave was hard. i dont remember why my big brother had followed my lead. he was a great basketball player, and reardan had a legendary sports program, so i can only assume he wanted to play sports. he and i were brothers, but i assume he always been emotionally closer to his reservation indian friends and cousins, than he ever been to me, which explains why he dropped out of reardan before thanksgiving and returned to the reservation school. i love my brother. and i didnt want to be alone in a white town. i didnt want to be the only one. so i almost followed him back to the reservation. but then i didnt. the thing you learn as a highly ambitious indian is that youre often going to be the only indian in the room, so youd better get used to it. a couple of weeks before school started, my mothers brother, leonard oscar, had died. so i walked into that new school with multiple griefs. as i left my uncle, i had also unhitched myself from my tribe. i was terrified. and then it got worse. on october 22, 1980, only a few weeks into school, my mothers mother, grandma spokane, died. which statement best expresses the main theme of the passage? a younger siblings tend to follow older siblings, even when they have different friends and interests. b life - changing decisions are not difficult to make but could lead to feelings of guilt later in life. c the decision to make a life change is difficult and people may feel guilty for leaving a life or community behind. d the loss of an immediate family member causes intense grief, leading to some people to make poor decisions.

Explanation:

The passage describes the narrator's difficult decision to leave the reservation for a new school, feeling guilty about leaving the community behind, which aligns with option C. Option A is not the main theme as sibling - following is not the core focus. Option B is incorrect as life - changing decisions are described as difficult. Option D is not relevant as the passage doesn't focus on the loss of a family member causing poor decisions.

Answer:

C. The decision to make a life change is difficult and people may feel guilty for leaving a life or community behind