Transition words and phrases in a paragraph... connect paragraphs to communicate one main idea.
connect ideas in the paragraph together.
hold the paragraph together to reflect the thesis.
hold the paragraph together if the focus changes.

do you have a copy of the poem?

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.

c is the answer because first she would blush to make the reader wonder why which they find out in the next line.