In twelve years a slave, platt decides to innovate a new way to transport lumber

3rd person, because the narrator is out of the story but explains the feeling of the main character

it should discride this whale so it shouldnt be that hard

. a function is a relation in which each input has only one output. in the relation , y is a function of x, because for each input x (1, 2, 3, or 0), there is only one output y. x is not a function of y, because the input y = 3 has multiple outputs: x = 1 and x = 2.