When reading “the first day,” at first, I simply thought it was just going to talk about the importance of the first impression because it was talking about the narrator’s clothing. As I continued to read, I saw how it’s actually about how the narrator is witnessing her mother give her the opportunity to get an education that she never had. Her mother doesn’t want the narrator to struggle like she did because now she has the resources to educate her daughter for her to learn those skills. Now this is the part i find the most interesting. the narrator notices behavior in her mother that she’s never seen before. Her mother asking for help. To me this could be because she was too embarrassed to ask for help in the past, maybe to avoid judgement from other people. But since she has lived a life not knowing how to read or write, she now knows what her daughter does need in order to succeed in the world and is only trying to give her a good education.