Which best explains how the use of first-person point of view in "gumption" contributes to the tone?

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the story gives the reader just the main character's thoughts and emotions, so the longing tone is magnified and clarified.

the first person point of view allows the reader to sense the reflective tone sylvester had when looking back on this incident.

this point of view shows the reader how everyone in the story is feeling which creates a proud tone.

since the story is told from multiple points of view, the tone varies depending upon each perspective.

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The correct answer is B. The first person point of view allows the reader to sense the reflective tone Sylvester had when looking back on this incident.

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imparadis't in one anothers arms  

the happier eden, shall enjoy their fill  

of bliss on bliss, while i to hell am thrust,  

where neither joy nor love, but fierce desire,  

among our other torments not the least,  

still unfulfill'd with pain of longing pines;  

yet let me not forget what i have gain'd  

from their own mouths; all is not theirs it seems:  

one fatal tree there stands of knowledge call'd,  

forbidden them to taste: knowledge forbidd'n?  

suspicious, reasonless. why should their lord  

envie them that? can it be sin to know,