Read this excerpt from a story:
i don't know why everyone was so happy when we reached the top of the mountain. it only took us four hours to hike up there. and i'm still not sure why everyone was amazed as we looked down. i mean, it was only the most
spectacular view i'd ever seen in my life.
which statement best describes the narrator's point of view in this excerpt?

a. he was sorry he agreed to the hike up the mountain.

b. he was in a state of panic because he was up so high.

c. he was in awe of what he saw from the top of the mountain.

d. he was bored by everything that happened on the hike.

Option C. The statement that best describes the narrator's point of view in the excerpt is that he was in awe of what he saw from the top of the mountain.

Explanation:

In the excerpt provided in the question, the narrator describes without a great sense of enthusiasm and excitement his/her experience with hiking a specific mountain by being sarcastic about the whole experience. But it is clear in his/her description, that he/she was in awe of what he/she saw from the top of the mountain as the description says: "I mean, it was only the most spectacular view I'd ever seen in my life."

it C. he was in awe of what he saw from the top of the mountain

Explanation:

the correct answer option for this is: false.

explanation:

we are given the following statement 'hawthorne thought of himself as a novelist' which is false.

the truth is that nathaniel hawthorne thought of himself as a romancer, rather than a novelist.

though it is ironic of him of him to consider himself a romancer rather than a novelist despite of the innocent women killings in the salem witch trials which occurred in colonial massachusetts between 1692 and 1693 .