If the story "Two Kinds" had been told through Suyuan's point of view, then first person narration would be appropriate. First person is often the most personal.
"Yet every one of these disasters has actually happened somewhere, and many real communities have already suffered a substantial number of them. A grim specter has crept upon us almost unnoticed, and this imagined
tragedy may easily become a stark reality we all shall know."
If you are looking for the conjuction word in there it is yet
The answer is it adds some unexpected hope by showing that people create beauty even amid poverty.
