Point of View

1. What point of view does the story use? Is the story told from a first-person perspective, in which the narrator is one of the characters in the story, and refers to himself or herself as "I"? Or is the story told from a third-person perspective, in which the narrator is not one of the characters in the story or may not participate in the events of the story?
-Because the story is about a person explaining her own autobiography, it was a first-person perspective in which she did refers herself as "I".
2. What are the advantages of the chosen point of view? Does it furnish any clues as to the purpose of the story?
-I believed that it does furnish a clue to describe how a person's opinion and thoughts about job could affect much about his/her life. It is kind of telling a real world how hard a person is getting the job he/she likes.
3. Is the narrator reliable or unreliable? Does he/she have a limited knowledge or understanding of characters and events in the story? Does the narrator know almost everything about one character or every character, including inner thoughts?
-The narrator should be reliable since she was the main character in the story. And that means she was actually knowing most things including the inner thoughts of her mother. But she seemed to don't understand how the person with different races think and feels.
4. Does the author use point of view primarily to reveal or conceal? Does he ever unfairly withhold important information known to the focal character.
-Most was being revealing but because the focal character was the narrator herself, she should be withholding some information that was negative about her.