13 Select the correct text in the passage.
Which detail best shapes the theme that unfamiliar places can often seem unwelcoming?
excerpt adapted from The School Days of an Indian Girl
from American Indian Storles
by Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin)
It was night when we reached the school grounds. The lights from the windows of the large buildings fell upon some of the Icicled trees that
stood beneath them. We were led toward an open door, where the brightness of the lights within flooded out over the heads of the excited
palefaces who blocked our way. My body trembled more from fear than from the snow I trod upon.
Entering the house, I stood close against the wall. The strong glaring light in the large whitewashed room dazzled my eyes. The nolsy hurrying of
hard shoes upon a bare wooden floor increased the whirring in my ears. My only safety seemed to be in keeping next to the wall. As I was
wondering in which direction to escape from all this confusion, two warm hands grasped me firmly, and in the same moment I was tossed high
In midalr. A rosy-cheeked paleface woman caught me in her arms. I was both frightened and insulted by such trifling. I stared into her eyes,
wishing her to let me stand on my own feet, but she jumped me up and down with increasing enthusiasm. My mother had never made a
plaything of her wee daughter. Remembering this I began to cry aloud.
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