The New Girl” is a story about a na

The New Girl” is a story about a narrator and his friend Allison. They are best friends
and both live on Prospect Street. Prospect Street was a white, lower-middle-class
neighbourhood. One day a new black family moves into Prospect Street and the story
describes the meeting between the narrator, Allison and a new black girl.
The story takes place in the USA, on a hot, bright summer day. The narrator is eight
years old and Allison is ten years old. They are the only children in the neighbourhood.
In their first meeting with the black girl the narrator and Allison are quite different. The
friends are riding their bikes, when the narrator sees the new girl in the middle of the
road. The new girl is laughing and the narrator is the first one to see her. The narrator
smiles at the girl and the girl smiles back. When Allison sees the black girl, she says:
“Get out of here, nigger”. The narrator is quite positive in his attitude, and Allison is
quite negative. When the narrator sees the way Allison is reacting against the black girl,
he is changing his attitude too and says: “Niggers are stupid”.
The narrator is happy when he first sees the new girl in Prospect Street, because he then
can get a new friend. There are not so many children in the neighbourhood to hang out
with. The narrator smiles at the new girl, because children do not naturally have
anything against other human beings. Children do not have prejudice against other
children.
The negative way Allison is reacting, is because of her mother. Allison’s mother has
told her negative things about black people. In line 64, she has told her specifically, that
black people will ruin their house.
When the day is at an end, the narrator’s stomach is twisted in a tight knot. When the
narrator sees the black girl playing with friends in the yard, he never speaks to the girl
and never says he is sorry. The knot in the narrator’s stomach grew tighter until it
become impossible to untie. The narrator feels a knot in his stomach, because he has a
guilty conscience about Allison and his own behaviour. The narrator hopes that the knot
will disappear, but it does not. Even twenty years later he often thinks about the little
black gir