Comprehension 

 1.The boys are upset because it’s tradition that they always carry the water and not the girls. 

 2. The boys were mad at the girls so they gave the girls threatening notes and the girls teamed up on them.

Elements of Fiction

3. Alma Niles is telling the story. Ms Ralston is more so in the girls side because she took the bat to play with the boys in baseball. The story was told in first person.

4. The setting is in World War II in a schoolhouse and it’s in a cold location and they have a furnace in the class. The setting intensifies the conflict because it’s in school and it’s with students but if it wasn’t in school and it was just a normal person it wouldn’t be the same. The conflict is girl vs. society to gain equal rights because Alma asks why the girls can’t carry the water but the boys can.

5. The protagonist is Alma Niles because she is the one who first asked the question about the water.

6.  Everything changed in that friday because of the one question that Alma asked Ms Ralston and after that the girls started to team up on the boys. Ms Ralston at the end of  the story she swept her desk with all the dust on it which signifies changing the past and making a new future were girls and boys are equal in the school.  The theme that the author is exploring is gender roles should not limit us we see the theme begin when Alma asks why girls can’t carry the water.