I would have to say that we strive to make something bigger and better for one of three things:
To make lots and lots of money from it.
To simply be the best
Or to make it easier for us to do things if we have this.
The answer is: Her mother's image of the great man did not match reality.
In the excerpt from "A Genetics of Justice," the author Julia Alvarez claims her mother did not know about the horrific atrocities of dictatorship Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. One of the reasons is her parents were too afraid to mention anything contrary to the system to protect her children. As a result, when she was a child, Alvarez's mother must have thought Trujillo was a film star and might have wished to meet him.
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