In Julia Alvarez’s story “Daughter of Invention”, why does the author choose to include Yoyo’s controversial speech reflecting core American values?

A. Alvarez wanted to show that despite the ideals of Whitman's America, immigrants were often unable to live his ideal American values, but instead, faced brutal treatment and hardship as she shows by Mami and Papi's rejection of Whitman's ideas.

B. Alvarez wanted to contrast the brutal dictatorship of Trujillo to the real freedoms of America by having Yoyo and Mami embrace core American values such as those idealized by Whitman in his poetry.

C.
Alvarez wanted to show that America is a place of danger and fear for immigrants and that Whitman's words did not apply to immigrants. She does this through the fear that the family members use when discussing Whitman's America in the speech.