How Well Do you Understand The selection?

1.Describe the speaker.
She really like pencils.
2.Describe the speaker's mother.
Her mother is very supportive to her even she has other six children to take care of.
3.Why did the speaker not buy more than one pencil at a time?
Because her mother does not have enough income to support their wants, and she is already contented at looking some of it on a store.
4.What gave the speaker a nice feeling?
When she look at some pencil displayed in a store.
5.Where did the speaker find her pencil at times?
In her handbag, between the pages of her notebook or under her typewriter.
6.Whose pencil did the speaker compare hers with? Describe the life of this person and what he/she did in living? She compare her pencil with the stenographer's pencil. The stenographer always need to be alert in every tasks that is give to him, he uses specific forms of shorthand to accurately transcribe verbal communications.
7. From what point of view this story written?Could it have been more effective if it was written from another point of view? Why or Why not?
This story is written in the point of view of the speaker (Lydia Arguilla, the writer). It is yet effective for me because she expressed what she wanted to say.