Read the excerpt from "A Genetics of Justice” by Julia Alvarez.

My mother, especially, lived in terror of the consequences of living as free citizens. In New York City, before Trujillo was killed, Dominican exiles gathered around the young revolutionary Juan Bosch planning an invasion of the Island. Every time my father attended these meetings, my mother would get hysterical. If the SIM found out about my father's activities, family members remaining behind were likely to be in danger. Even our own family in New York could suffer consequences. Five years earlier, in 1955, Galindez, an exile anti-Trujillo teaching at Columbia University, had disappeared from a New York subway. The same thing could happen to us.

I don't know if my father complied or just got too busy trying to make a living in this country. But after a few months of hotheaded attendance, he dropped out of these political activities and his silence deepened.

Which statement best analyzes how the author develops the central idea across the paragraphs?

A. Alvarez explains that her parents often disagreed about how to react to the dictatorship now that they were living in a free country.
B. Alvarez explains how her father became heavily involved in anti-Trujillo activities, but soon became too busy to participate in them.
C. Alvarez explains how her mother eventually convinced her father to stop attending political meetings because of the danger.
D. Alvarez explains that, although her parents reacted differently to the stress they endured, both became silent about the dictatorship.

From the beginning, Alvarez's mother decided to be silent about the dictatorship, because the situation was so stressful and she was afraid that something bad might happen to them. Already Alvarez's father decided to deal with the stress imposed by the dictatorship by getting involved in political meetings that were resistant to dictatorship and defied this system, however, also decided to silence, after seeing the consequences of turning against the system.

In summary, we can conclude that Alvarez explains that while their parents reacted differently to the stress they suffered, they were both silent about the dictatorship.