By the time my mother married my father, however, she knew all about the true nature of the
dictatorship. Thousands had lost their lives in failed attempts to return the country to
democracy. Family friends, whom she had assumed had dropped away of their own accord,
turned out to have been disappeared. My father had been lucky. As a young man, he had
narrowly escaped to Canada after the plot he had participated in as a student failed. This was to
be the first of two escapes. That same year, 1937, El Generalísimo ordered the overnight
slaughter of some eighteen thousand Haitians, who had come across the border to work on
sugarcane plantations for slave wages. It was from my father that my mother learned why
Trujillo hated blacks with such a vengeance, how he disguised his own Haitian ancestry, how he
lightened his skin with makeup.
-"A Genetics of Justice,'
Julia Alvarez

The method his soldiers used in 1937 to try to identify those who would be killed was cruelly
unique. When confronting someone in the lands along the border with Haiti, they would hold
up a sprig of parsley and ask what it was. If the person responded by trilling the "r" in perejil
(Spanish for parsley), he would be free to go. Anyone who didn't trill the "r" was thought to be a
Haitian Creole speaker-and was likely to be killed.
-"Remembering to Never Forget,"
Mark Memmott


Which statement about the two passages is accurate?

Each text presents a different topic but uses the same tone and point of view.

Each text presents the same topic using a different tone and point of view.

Each text presents a different topic but uses the same tone and serves the same purpose.

Each text presents the same topic using the same point of view, but for a different purpose.