Read the passage from "names/nombres" by julia alvarez.

my dominican heritage was never more apparent than when my extended
family attended school occasions. for my graduation, they all came, the whole lot of aunts and uncles and the many little cousins who snuck in without tickets. they sat in the first row in order to better understand the americans' fast-spoken english. but how could they listen when they were constantly speaking among themselves in florid­sounding phrases, rococo consonants, rich, rhyming vowels?

which influence does alvarez write about in this passage?

a. popular culture
b. her culture
c. her friends
d. her neighbors

B. Her culture.

Explanation:

Julia Alvarez's personal story/essay "Names/Nombres" details her experience of having to maintain her Dominican heritage and the American identity she had adopted in her new country. This story reveals some of her dilemma in maintaining her identity even at times when she don't feel like.

The passage given in the question shows the influence of her family or rather Dominican culture when they had to come to her school occasions. Her Dominican heritage was most apparent at these events, especially her graduation ceremony where almost all of her extended family had come to witness the historic event in their family. She had commented on how they were all so engrossed within themselves that they wouldn't even be able to listen to the word in fast spoken English used by the Americans even though they were seated at the front.

d. murder of a son and cooking the son for a feast

procne murdered her son and served him to tereus, her husband and her son's father. she did this out of revenge. tereus raped her sister, philomela, and cut her tongue out to keep her from talking. philomela managed to communicate it to procne and procne sought revenge.

tantalus murdered his son and fed him to the gods because he was angry with the gods. the gods punished him by putting him in a pool of water that evaporates when he tries to drink and having fruit hang just out of his reach.