How does the first-person point of view affect this story? It makes the narrator a sympathetic character and, therefore, more believable than the villagers. It places the narrator and the reader on the same footing so the reader can predict what the narrator is likely to do. It forces the reader to take sides in the dispute and to draw their own conclusions about who is at fault for the outcome. It allows the reader to experience the narrator’s confusion about the villagers’ ways, which hints at the resolution.

Excerpt from saving the thrift store: a dramalee washington2rosa: eddie, i don’t recognize the shirt you’re wearing. when did you get it? 3louis: it doesn’t look as disheveled as the soccer shirts you wear all the time.4eddie: well, i’m not going to tiptoe through the soccer field to keep my clothes neat. (louis playfully aims a soccer ball at eddie. rosa deflects it.)5rosa: what i was trying to say is that the shirt looks really good. (louis wanders over to the morning newspaper that is still sitting on the front lawn. he leafs through it while eddie and rosa talk.) in line 5, which point is rosa making when she says eddie’s shirt looks good? a) the store must have new merchandise. b) rosa is jealous of eddie’s new shirt. c) eddie must have done his own laundry. d) eddie often wears old, tattered shirts.