How does the inclusion of a long paragraph at
the beginning of this passage affect the reader's
interpretation of the text?
it presents the narrator's extensive
background to explain why he finds
his journey so difficult to undertake.
it the reader become
immersed in the narrator's
experience through the use of an
uninterrupted description.
it shows the reader how the
o narrator's mood is changeable like
the foreign rivers that he travels.
it repeats a single idea to
demonstrate the narrator's confused
and dangerous state of mind.