Which passage from "Names Nombres"best supports the inference that Alvarez started to write at a young age?
At the hotel my mother was Missus Alburest, and I was little girl, as in, "Hey, little girl, stop riding the elevator up and down.
You know what your friend Shakespeare said, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.**
The biggest gilt was a portable typewriter from my parents for writing my stories and poems.
Someday, the family predicted, my name would be well-known throughout the United States.