What is the central idea of this excerpt? The dictatorship resulted in many deaths. It was possiWhich statement best analyzes how the author develops the central idea across the paragraphs? Alvarez explains that her parents often disagreed about how to react to the dictatorship now that they were living in a free country. Alvarez explains how her father became heavily involved in anti-Trujillo activities, but soon became too busy to participate in them. Alvarez explains how her mother eventually convinced her father to stop attending political meetings because of the danger. Alvarez explains that, although her parents reacted differently to the stress they endured, both became silent about the dictatorship.