Read the passage. as cara shuffled through the neglected, barren parking lot, she thought about the fight. edie would never forgive her for what she had said. their friendship was over. then cara saw it. a small, brilliantly red flower had managed to grow through one of the many jagged cracks of the parking lot. it stood in the midst of the parking lot like a lone boat in the middle of the ocean. how it had survived in this wasteland, cara would never know. but seeing this unlikely flower, she began to think that anything was possible. maybe edie would forgive her. the phrase “a small, brilliantly red flower” appeals to the reader’s sense of smell hearing sight touch

Alvarez instruction active understanding characters what can you conclude about the daughters, based on the passage? check all that apply. her daughters would seek her out at night when she seemed to have a moment to talk to them: they were having trouble at school or they wanted her to persuade their father to give them permission to go into the city or to a shopping mall or a movie - in broad daylight, mami! laura would wave them out of her room. "the problem with you " the problem boiled down to the fact that they wanted to become americans and their father and their mother, too, at first - would have none of it. -“daughter of invention," julia alvarez they struggle to fit in. they feel supported by their mother. they value their mother's advice. they embrace american culture. they want to leave new york