Your first impression would either be selection of clothes or voice
Its all about decisions made through fear or goodness , once humans develop imagined fear anxiety , goodness is reduced and decisions become subjective rather than objective.
Yes, in Chapter 1 the rose bush represents that even though the prison is a cold and dark place, beauty can still be found. In Chapter 7, the rose bush is the only beautiful thing in the garden, which alludes to the same message as that in chapter 1.
1+5. Possibly 2. The conclusion concludes what happens during the paragraph, and can act as a transition to the next paragraph.