59:38 Which statement best analyzes how the author
develops the central idea across the two passages?
o Alvarez describes how the SIM's threats and
Read the excerpt from "A Genetics of Justice" by Julia
Alvarez.
Passage A:
And so, long after we had left, my parents were still living
in the dictatorship inside their own heads. Even on
American soil, they were afraid of awful consequences if
they spoke out or disagreed with authorities. The First
Amendment right to free speech meant nothing to them.
Silence about anything "political" was the rule in our
house.
activities followed her family even in the United
States.
O Alvarez shows how her parents' fears about the
dictatorship turned out to be false as the situation in
the Dominican Republic improved.
O Alvarez shows how her parents' fears about the
dictatorship affected their thoughts and actions even
when they lived in the United States.
O Alvarez describes how her parents feared the values
of free speech and freedom of association.
Passage B:
My mother, especially, lived in terror of the
consequences of living as free citizens. In New York
City, before Trujillo was killed, Dominican exiles gathered
around the young revolutionary Juan Bosch planning an
invasion of the Island. Every time my father attended
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