The short story “ the first day” while reading it ,I had enjoyed how the author had written what she had seen around her and how she had described everything in a unique way that makes the reader picture the storyline. What I had noticed the most while reading would be the fact that it had elements of figurative language such as how it was a methopter when the narrative was describing her surrondings. Not to mention the strong use of imagery in which I had enjoyed the most. It had been a very impactful short story in which I had a connection with it as to the fact that I had a similar mom in which she had always wanted the best for me in growing up especially when it came to education. By that I was related to the main character ,The mom had demonstrated in the short story how she had been very determined and showed strong character traits in order for her daughter to go to the school that she had believed was the best for her daughter in which is admirable though the question i would ask is what had happened between the mother and the daughter?Was the school not the best?