Beyond the Mountains and Little Cricket: Adapting to New Environments

How do the new environments affect the narrator in "Excerpt from Behind the Mountains" and Kia in "Excerpt from Little Cricket"?

What events suggest that the narrator and Kia are each adapting to their new environments? Use details from both stories to support your response.

Details of New Environments

1. The narrator of Beyond the Mountain experiences nosebleeds and watery eyes as a result of the weather in the setting.

2. Kia's surroundings has an impact on her in the excerpt from Little Cricket since she said that she has never encountered people with the kind of appearance that she is in this new setting.

Adapting to New Environments

Edwidge Danticat, who was named one of our best young writers by The New York Times, has published a book called Behind The Mountains that beautifully examines topics of growing up, family ties, separation and reunification, immigration, and cultural identity.

An inference is the conclusion that can be inferred from the information in a story. The occasions when the narrator and Kia seemed to be adjusting to their new surroundings were those in which they developed stronger bonds with those around them.