Read the excerpt from "A Genetics of Justice" by Julia Alvarez.

By the time my mother married my father, however, she knew all about the true nature of the dictatorship. Thousands had lost their lives in failed attempts to return the country to democracy. Family friends, whom she had assumed had dropped away of their own accord, turned out to have been disappeared. My father had been lucky. As a young man, he had narrowly escaped to Canada after the plot he had participated in as a student failed. This was to be the first of two escapes. That same year, 1937, El Generalísimo ordered the overnight slaughter of some eighteen thousand Haitians, who had come across the border to work on sugarcane plantations for slave wages.

Which details does the author include to support the central idea about the result of the dictatorship? Select two options.

A. "lost their lives"

B. "family friends"

C. "lucky"

D. "escapes"

E. "slaughter"

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Giselle Taylor

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18 October, 13:35

Read the excerpt from "A Genetics of Justice" by Julia Alvarez.

By the time my mother married my father, however, she knew all about the true nature of the dictatorship. Thousands had lost their lives in failed attempts to return the country to democracy. Family friends, whom she had assumed had dropped away of their own accord, turned out to have been disappeared. My father had been lucky. As a young man, he had narrowly escaped to Canada after the plot he had participated in as a student failed. This was to be the first of two escapes. That same year, 1937, El Generalísimo ordered the overnight slaughter of some eighteen thousand Haitians, who had come across the border to work on sugarcane plantations for slave wages.

Which details does the author include to support the central idea about the result of the dictatorship? Select two options.

A. "lost their lives"

B. "family friends"

C. "lucky"

D. "escapes"

E. "slaughter"

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Omar Mcdonald · Answer 1

The details that Julia Alvarez includes in this excerpt from A Genetics of Justice to support the central idea about the result of the dictatorship are A and E: "lost their lives" and "slaughter".

Explanation:

By giving these details about the consequences people used to suffer from putting themselves against de regime, the author makes clear for the reader that the government punishes the one who does not behave according their rules. She shows with these phrases that, under this regime, there is no place for the ones who have other believes and that the consequences are extreme.

Lily Love · Answer 2

A. "lost their lives"

E. "slaughter"

Explanation:

"A Genetics of Justice" by Julia Alvarez is the second novel by her which deals with the dictatorial rule of Generalisimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo in her home country of the Dominican Republic. Her namesake and mother Julia Alvarez had been critical of her daughter's writings but with this piece, she gave her approval and told of how proud she was to see the dictatorship being written about.

The excerpt in the question gave some specific details about the dictatorship, with "thousands losing their lives", "family friends disappearing", and "the overnight slaughter of some eighteen thousand Haitians who had come across the border to work on sugarcane plantation for slave wages." The use of the words / phrases "lost their lives" and "slaughter" are pure indication of the results of the dictatorial rule of Trujillo.