Question

When he went away, I looked around me: three bare walls, a toilet, and a cot. Then I fell down on my knees in the middle of the cell and started crying again. I didn’t know if anyone knew where I was or what had happened to me. I had no idea how long I would be there. I cried and I put my hands together and prayed like I had never prayed before.
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Meanwhile, schoolmates who had been on the bus had run home and telephoned Claudette’s mother at the house where she worked as a maid. Girls went over and took care of the lady’s three small children so that Claudette's mother could leave, Mary Ann Colvin called Claudette’s pastor, the Reverend H. H. Johnson. He had a car, and together they sped to the police station.
—Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice,
Phillip Hoose
Read the excerpt. Based on the excerpt and the rest of the text you read earlier, write two to three sentences explaining why it was important for the author to include first-person point of view when telling Claudette’s story.

Answer 1

Answer:

It was important to include first- person point of view so that the reader could learn more about how Claudette felt about being arrested. For example, by including two points of view, the reader learns how Claudette felt after being arrested. The reader also learns what her mother was doing while Claudette was in jail.

Explanation:

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Answer 2

Answer: It is important that this was written in first person, because first person lets the reader know what the character is feeling in there head. If the author wrote it in third person than the reader could not tell how they were feeling as well as they could when the text is written in first person.

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