Describing Character Development
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Before this excerpt, the narrator has felt like she
does not fit in at school.
There was only one source of beauty and light for
me that school year. The only thing I had
anticipated at the start of the semester. That was
seeing Eugene. In August, Eugene and his family
had moved into the only house on the block that
had a yard and trees. I could see his place from
my window in El Building. In fact, if I sat on the
fire escape I was literally suspended above
Eugene's backyard. It was my favorite spot to
read my library books in the summer.
-"American History,"
Judith Ortiz Cofer
How does the narrator change from the first excerpt to
the second?
O She becomes less confident about making
friendships.
O She becomes more interested in trying to be
accepted.
O She becomes less able to deal with other people
disliking her.
O She becomes more hopeful that she can be
accepted for who she is.