While reading “The First Day” by Edward P. Jones, some vivid words left a considerable impression on me. In the first paragraph, the author tries to paint this picture in which she is getting ready for school with the help of her mother. He uses words like “my nose fills with the faint smell of Dixie Peach hair grease” that describe her situation distinctly. The choice of words make it effortlessly easy to visualize what is going on.  However, I do feel that despite the author trying his best to make the story descriptive, he has also wrote the story in a way where little to no emotion exists. There are instances where the story seem very straightforward, monotone and bleak. The situation the story portrays, a first day of school experience, is also very relatable. Your first day of school is usually easier to recall, whether it was a positive or negative experience, and I feel like that ties up with the story effectively because it has been described in a similar, detailed way.