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English, 09.12.2020 20:10 emmie50

Read the passage. There are so many bird-cherries round me, great trees with branches sweeping the grass, and they are so wreathed just now with white
blossoms and tenderest green that the garden looks like a wedding. I never saw such masses of them; they seem to fill the place. Even across a little stream that bounds the garden on the east, and right in the middle of the cornfield beyond, there is an immense one, a picture of grace and glory against the cold blue of the spring sky.
My garden is surrounded by cornfields and meadows, and beyond are great stretches of sandy heath and pine-forests, and where the forests leave off the bare heath begins again; but the forests are beautiful in their lofty, pink-stemmed vastness, far overhead the crowns of softest grey-green, and underfoot a bright green whortleberry carpet, and everywhere the breathless silence; and the bare heaths are beautiful too, for one can see across them into eternity almost...
(from Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Countess Elizabeth von Arnim Russell)

Which information is the author able to reveal about the narrator by using the first-person point of view in the passage?

1. the narrator's disbelief and nervousness about the world around her

2. the narrator's youthful and immature views on living things and nature

3. the narrator's satisfaction and pleasure in observing her surroundings

4. the narrator's apathy and discomfort with the silence of the outdoors

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