Ryker Watts

English

4 October, 01:00

Which passage from "Names/Nombres" best supports the inference that Alvarez started to write at a young age?

At the hotel my mother was Missus Alburest, and I was little girl, as in, "Hey, little girl, stop riding the elevator up and down. It's not a toy."

"You know what your friend Shakespeare said, 'A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.'"

The biggest gift was a portable typewriter from my parents for writing my stories and poems.

Someday, the family predicted, my name would be well-known throughout the United States.