The Dumas were given so much kindness and were accepted so quickly in those two short years that they were in America. They were highly thought of in their community that they didn’t want to go back to their homeland of Iran after their two-year were up. They didn’t know when they were going to come back, the girl even said so herself, “I didn’t know then that indeed be returning to America about two years later” (Dumas, 16).All that the girl knew was that everyone was upset that she was leaving. “ The last month of our stay, I attended one slumber party after another, all thrown in my honor” (Dumas, 16).She also knew that, even though her mother could not speak or understand hardly any English, she was thankful for all that the community