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What do the words spoken by the mouse in paragraph 3 tell us about her character?

He had fished in the river since ten years and he was a good fisherman. he know where to found the slim sliver chilwa fish, a big beautiful mahseer and the long moustache singhara. he know where the river was deep but where it is shallow; he knew which baits to use - which fish like worms and which liked gram. edit the above

Which characteristic of james baldwin’s “notes of a native son” qualify as a work of literary nonfiction