Question

Why I love the country that betrayed me

PART B: Which quote from the text best supports the answer to Part A?
• A. "It became normal for me to go with my father to bathe in a mass shower. Being in a prison, a barbed-wire prison camp, became my normality." (Paragraph 6)
• B. "My baby sister said, 'Mama, let's go back home, because behind barbed wires was for us home." (Paragraph 7)
• C. "My parents worked hard to get back on their feet. We had lost everything. They were at the middle of their lives and starting all over." (Paragraph 8)
© D. "we have an inalienable right to life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and I couldn't quite make that fit with what knew to be my childhood imprisonment."
(Paragraph 8)

Answer 1

Quote D: 'we have an inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and I couldn't quite make that fit with what knew to be my childhood imprisonment.'

Step-by-step explanation:

The quote that best supports the answer to Part A, which is 'Why I love the country that betrayed me,' is quote D: 'we have an inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and I couldn't quite make that fit with what knew to be my childhood imprisonment.' This quote highlights the conflict between the ideals of freedom and the reality of the author's experience as a prisoner in their own country.