After reading “The First Day” by Edward P. Jones, something that I noticed about the text is how well the author uses his choice of wording making the readers feel like it’s their first day of Elementary school. on the first alinea of the first paragraph. The Narrator said something on the lines of “long before I learned to be ashamed of my mother”. This shows  that the daughter is foreshadowing a major event that happened that made her feel ashamed of her mother. While i continued reading the story i discovered some reasons why she might be ashamed of her mother. Her mother  saiud ”I want her to go here,” 5 my mother says. ”she tried to get her daughter to a better school which was near their church where they lived. They eventually went to the school they were supposed to go and had to sign an form she discovered that her mom couldn’t read. ‘can’t read it. I don’t know how to read or write, and I’m askin you to help me.” which really resingnated to me because i usualy translate things to my family when they need help. In conclusion The mother tries to provide her daughter with access to good education while even though she wasn’t able to do.