"I felt I was making some progress in mastering the English language even if my collection of rejection slips
seemed to shout otherwise." (Paragraph 5)
How does the personification in this sentence most
affect the passage?
O 1. It contrasts the author's sense of optimism with
the overwhelmingly negative responses to his
writing.
O 2. It emphasizes the author's sense of
embarrassment when he is confronted by the
railway express man.
03. It reveals the author's struggle to write in a third
language, which he attempts to overcome
through study.
04. It demonstrates the author's imaginative writing
style, which he finally starts to use in "The
Wedding Shoes."

no it who u choose to be. let no one tel u what or who to be;

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.

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