Questions for "The First Day" by Edward P. JonesLearning Target: Students will be able to read "The First Day" by Edward P. Jones and analyze how the narrator’s point of view reveals how she feels about her mother.Use this word document to answer the following three questions by writing your answers below each question.•Please use complete sentences.•Please use a specific reference to the text beyond what is stated in the question as part of your answer.2.Based on what we learn about the mother in lines 67 – 94 what two adjectives would you use to describe her and why? Please use a phrase from the text to support your adjectives.3.Given the narrator’s point of view, why does the author end the story with the last line of the story? Please use a phrase from earlier in the text to support your answer.

One of the moral truths that is highlighted in the story "The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses" is how people are able to achieve so much more when they work as a group, as opposed to acting individually.

In this story, we learn about a group of prisoners in a South African jail. They are political activists, and enjoy a good degree of freedom. However, this is threatened with the arrival of a new, strict warden. The group, however, is able to fight against this new authority due to the fact that they always operate as a tight group, and that there is rarely any conflict among themselves.

This truth is particularly meaningful in this context, as the prisoners are being punished for their social and political ideas and activism. The prisoners have a deep care and concern for society and they want relations among people to become fairer and more peaceful. However, they also act in accordance to this principle, as they attempt to create peaceful and cooperative relationships both among themselves as well as with the authorities. This is examplified by how the group always replies in unison, or by the fact that the warden joins the prisoners in working at the farm.