Reaction for “The Girl Who Wouldn’t Talk”

Everyone came from different cultures; we would try to get in to the new culture as fast as we can if we are in different country. The narrator in this story is a Chinese girl who is trying to get into the American culture too, but she sees herself weak in another Chinese girl who is called the silent girl in the story. The narrator really hates “herself” being weak, so she wants the girl to speak and get into the American culture like her. My opinion, the narrator is kind of mean to the silent girl. I know she has her difficulties seeing “herself” weak in the silent girl, but I would not say those mean words to that silent girl. If I was the narrator, I would talk nicely to her or be her friends first, and then find out why she wouldn’t talk. About half of the story is about a narrator pleasing the silent girl to talk, in this part, the narrator describes her so neatly. She describes the way she cried; even describe each detail about her. I think the narrator not just does not want to see herself in that silent girl, but she cares about her too. She just doesn’t know how to solve the problem.