English, 01.12.2020 01:30 robert7248

Read this passage "Primary Lessons" from Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood. I made one last desperate effort to make my mother see reason: “Father will be very angry. You know that he wants us to speak good English.” My mother, of course, ignored me as she dressed my little brother in his playclothes.

What does this excerpt illustrate about the narrator's mother?

She is angry with the narrator for overreacting about going to school.

She is more concerned with the needs of her children than those of her husband.

She tends to ignore her children when they complain about doing as they are told.

She will not allow the narrator to use guilt to make her change her mind about going to school.

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