Why is Jeannette more comfortable with Dinita than she is with white children?

Jeannette is more comfortable with Dinitia because Dinitia doesn't judge her for how she looks, or how she lives.

As the boys sleep, military airplanes battle fiercely above the island. none of the boys sees the explosions and flashes in the clouds because the twins sam and eric, who were supposed to watch the signal fire, have fallen asleep. during the battle, a parachutist drifts down from the sky onto the island, dead.