What is the collective effect of the words elusive, fragment, struggling, wisp and startled in the last paragraph? How do these words help Fitzgerald communicate his idea?

c. our lives go by quickly, so take time to enjoy each moment.

explanation:

the eye wink at the hand; yet let that be / which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.

because they were not just any seashells they were sally's seashells

the narrator is a first person, participant one, who describes in the simple past tense important and difficult events in his earlier life. he also provides temporal markers as the month (january) and the time (12: 30 pm). finally the account of his experience is very detailed, to the extent that a participant narrator would talk the same way about his experiences. a good example of such detail is the mention of the “bovril ration” which historically was a native american food adopted by european explorers in arctic and antarctic regions due to its high level of calories.