Answer: Stacey doesn´t understand why Cassie wants to talk to Lillian Jean.
Explanation:
Stacey knows that Cassie is still hurting from Lillian Jean´s insults, so when Cassie sees Lillian Jean on the walk to school and follows her to talk, and even pretends to believe black people are actually inferior to white people, he doesn´t understand the reason behind it. He doesn´t know that Cassie has a revenge plan.
Anne explains her plan for helping the neighborhood children.
It is called a participial adjective.
They are pretty common in English language and in the sentence provided the participial adjectives are "gnarled" and "twisted" as they were created from the verbs "to gnarl" and "to twist".
