The author develops the central idea across these paragraphs by explaining how her mother's reaction to her novel provoked a rare moment of peace between them.
The central idea of a text is the most important message the author wishes to convey through that text. Here, we are analyzing Julia Alavarez's text to find how she develops her central or most important idea.
According to Alvarez, her mother's reaction to her novel brought something unexpected - a moment of peace between them. She thought her mother would be angry, but she was surprised to hear that her mother was proud of her instead.
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When the novel came out, I decided to go ahead and risk her anger. I inscribed a copy to both Mami and Papi with a note: "Thank you for having instilled in me through your sufferings a desire for freedom and justice." I mailed the package and—what I seldom do except in those moments when I need all the help I can get—I made the sign of the cross as I exited the post office. Days later, my mother called me up to tell me she had just finished the novel. "You put me back in those days. It was like I was reliving it all," she said sobbing. "I don't care what happens to us! I'm so proud of you for writing this book."
I stood in my kitchen in Vermont, stunned, relishing her praise and listening to her cry. It was one of the few times since l had learned to talk that I did not try to answer my mother back. If there is such a thing as genetic justice that courses through the generations and finally manifests itself full-blown in a family moment, there it was.
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C. Alvarez explains how her mother's reaction to her novel provoked a rare moment of peace between them.
