Consider this quotation it’s bye-bye to you Gabe, in the morning,’ Father had said, in his sweet, sing-song voice.” (207) How does the author’s choice of words contribute to the mood? [RL 7.4]

he will find out what went wrong or happened and how.

second person

explanation:

note the heavy uses of "you", "your", as well as "he".

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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.