Question

Which of these excerpts from Margaret Frink's memoir most clearly shows that her story is told in the first person?

A. The Carsons had two wagons, with four horses to each, having bought more horses at Ragtown, after losing their mules...

B. Away from the river, the soil is hard and dry, void of any vegetation except sage-brush, which is worthless for any purpose but fuel.

C. Much of the slpe between the mountains and the river is covered with sage-brush.

Whenever we come to grass that can be mowed, Mr.Frink has the men cut a good supply of it with the scythe...

Answer 1

D. But we had not traveled fifty miles down the stream before we found the water gradually becoming brackish and discolored from the salt and

Answer 2

Answer: D) Whenever we come to grass that can be mowed, Mr.Frink has the men cut a good supply of it with the scythe...

Explanation: There are different possible types of narrator in a story, there is the omniscient narrator, who speaks in third person, the second person narrator, who speaks in second person (you) and the first person narrator, who uses the first person singular or plural (I, we). In the given excerpts from Margaret Frink's memoir, the one that most clearly shows that her story is told in the first person, is option D, because of the use of the pronoun "we."