The New Girl is a real life story. The story is about the two “friends”, Alison (10 years) and the narrator (8 years). They live in a lower-middle-class neighbourhood, and one day a little black girl turns up on their street. This little girl has just moved in the house placed opposite to Alison’s. The narrator smiles to the new girl, but Alison is telling the girl to get off the street, because of the fact, that she doesn’t want to play with “niggers”. The narrator imitates Alison’s behaviour, but later she regrets it and she wants to apologies. The narrator then sees the girl playing outside, but she never spoke to her. Later the girl, and her mother moved, and the narrator describes the feeling of having a knot inside her, because she didn’t apologise.
Interpretation:
The story has two particular main themes, regression and racism. The racism is mainly the way the white girl Alison is behaving, especially when she sees the new girl. The regression is when, the narrator regrets, that she didn’t apologies her behaviour/tone of it being not very polite, or racist.
The narrator describes her feeling, of being sorry as major problem to her; it’s showed in the last paragraph. It tells us how she feels about being wrong, has turned her stomach into a knot and it keeps getting bigger and bigger.
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