Answer: "Cloudy Day" by Jimmy Santiago Baca is to show how there can always be sunshine on a cloudy day. Meaning that no matter how bad things are, it could possibly b worse, so we should always be optimistic.
Explanation: The purpose of the flashback is to show how the speaker has changed from the start of his prison time to the end
The others don't make any sense and you could do the process of elimination so you would eliminate lesser and few so then your left with the words less and fewer but in this case fewer makes the most sense.