Read the excerpt from “The School Days of an Indian Girl.” It was very little I could swallow besides my sobs, that evening.

"Oh, I want my mother and my brother Dawée! I want to go to my aunt!” I pleaded; but the ears of the palefaces could not hear me.

What does the line "but the ears of the palefaces could not hear me" suggest about the school personnel?

The narrator’s crying makes it hard to hear.

They do not understand the narrator’s language.

The narrator’s words do not matter to them.

It is too noisy to hear the narrator’s words.