What main idea is conveyed in this passage?
O Julia feels like an outsider in her new culture.
O Julia's many names help her fit into both cultures..
O Julia is having trouble with life in the US.
O Julia's Dominican culture was new to her friends.
Read the passage from "Names/Nombres" by Julia
Alvarez.
By the time I was in high school, I was a popular kid,
and it showed in my name. Friends called me Jules or
Hey Jude, and once a group of troublemaking friends
my mother forbade me to hang out with called me
Alcatraz. I was Hoo-lee-tah only to Mami and Papi and
uncles and aunts who came over to eat sancocho on
Sunday afternoons - old world folk whom I would just
as soon go back to where they came from and leave
me to pursue whatever mischief I wanted to in America.
JUDY ALCATRAZ, the name on the "Wanted" poster
would read. Who would ever trace her to me?