Question

read the excerpt from a genetics of justice by julia alvarez. my father and mother were once again trapped in a police state. they laid low as best they could. now that they had four young daughters, they could not take any chances. for a while, that spark which has almost cost my father his life and which he had lighted in my mother seemed to have burnt out. periodically, trujillo would demand a tribute, and they would acquiesce. a tax, a dummy vote, a portrait on the wall. to my father and other men in the country, the most humiliating of these tributes was the occasional parade in which women were made to march and turn their heads and acknowledge the great man as they passed the review stand. what is the central idea in this paragraph? having four young daughters made the family more of a target because of trujillos mandatory tributes. trujillo required people to take part in tributes and parades, which were enforced by the police state. the authors parents fought against the dictatorship, even though they participated in the tributes. the authors parents tried to get by in the dictatorship, but felt humiliated by the tributes they were forced to participate in.

Explanation:

The excerpt describes the author's parents trying to survive under Trujillo's dictatorship. They had to participate in tributes due to having young daughters and felt humiliated by them.

Answer:

The author's parents tried to get by in the dictatorship, but felt humiliated by the tributes they were forced to participate in.