Question

How does the use of first‑person narration impact the reader’s understanding of the expedition in Passage 2?


It allows the reader to experience events in a more objective way.


It requires the reader to make inferences about the event.


It requires the reader to distance themselves from the writer's emotions.


It allows the reader to experience events as the writer.

Answer 1

It allows the reader to experience events as the writer.

First-person narration gives a subjective, immediate view of the expedition, letting readers see and feel events through the narrator’s perspective (though it’s limited to that narrator’s knowledge and emotions).