Question
Read the excerpt from Warriors Don't Cry.
I had been patiently waiting, hoping that at any moment my grandmother would signal her approval of my grown-up outfit, upswept hairdo, and high-heeled black patent shoes. Layers of forbidden makeup and dark glasses completed what I thought was the perfect disguise. The white people would never, ever recognize me from any picture they might have seen.
What is the central idea of the excerpt?
The narrator longs to be unnoticed in public.
The narrator admires her grandmother’s style.
The narrator has learned new styles at school.
The narrator strives to shock her family.
I had been patiently waiting, hoping that at any moment my grandmother would signal her approval of my grown-up outfit, upswept hairdo, and high-heeled black patent shoes. Layers of forbidden makeup and dark glasses completed what I thought was the perfect disguise. The white people would never, ever recognize me from any picture they might have seen.
What is the central idea of the excerpt?
The narrator longs to be unnoticed in public.
The narrator admires her grandmother’s style.
The narrator has learned new styles at school.
The narrator strives to shock her family.
Answers
GPT-4o mini
The central idea of the excerpt is that the narrator longs to be unnoticed in public. The narrator describes her efforts to create a disguise to avoid recognition by white people, indicating a desire to blend in or go unnoticed in a challenging social environment.