Which main idea is conveyed in this passage?
O A name can keep an individual from fitting into a new
culture.
O A name has no influence on an individual's identity.
O A name can connect an individual with her family and
culture.
O A name determines an individual's entire existence.
Read the passage from "Names/Nombres" by Julia
Alvarez.
My mother blushed and admitted her baby's real name
to the group. Her mother in-law had recently died, she
apologized, and her husband had insisted that the first
daughter be named after his mother, Mauran. My mother
thought it the ugliest name she had ever heard, and she
talked my father into what she believed was an
improvement, a combination of Mauran and her own
mother's name, Felicia.
"Her name is Mao-ree-shee-ah," my mother said to the
group of women.
"Why, that's a beautiful name," the new mothers cried.
"Moor-ee-sha, Moor-ee-sha," they cooed into the pink
blanket. Moor-ee-sha it was when we returned to the
States eleven years later. Sometimes, American
tongues found even that mispronunciation tough to say