Question

read the excerpt from \a genetics of justice\ by julia alvarez. 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. if you did not march, your cédula would not be stamped, and without a stamped identification card, you could do nothing; in particular, you could not obtain your passport to leave the country under the pretext of wanting to study heart surgery. this was the second escape—this time with his whole family—that my father was planning. the day came when my mother had to march. the parade went on for hours in the hot sun until my mother which statement best analyzes how the author develops the central idea across the paragraphs? alvarez traces how trujillo demanded the tributes, how her family reacted, and how it was finally her mother’s turn to pay tribute. alvarez describes how her family reacted to trujillo’s demands and how that affected their lives when they left the dominican republic. alvarez retells her mother’s humiliating experience of paying tribute to a dictator she did not support. alvarez describes how trujillo’s mandatory taxes and tributes affected her mother in a negative way.

Explanation:

The excerpt first outlines Trujillo's various tributes (taxes, votes, parades), then connects the tribute requirement to her father's family escape plan, and finally transitions to her mother having to participate in the demeaning parade tribute. This matches the flow of the first option, which tracks the demand, family reaction, and the mother's turn to comply. The other options are too narrow: the text is not only about post-emigration effects, not just the mother's experience alone, nor only negative impacts on the mother.

Answer:

Alvarez traces how Trujillo demanded the tributes, how her family reacted, and how it was finally her mother's turn to pay tribute.