Which details from "the grasshopper and the bell cricket" allow the reader to infer that the narrator is an observer and outsider?

a. "at the base of the embankment was a bobbing cluster of beautiful varicolored lanterns . ."
b. "cutting out the back and front of a small carton and papering it, he placed a candle on the bottom and fastened a string to the top."
c. "different from the painted-over red lanterns, others (made of thick cutout cardboard) had their designs drawn upon the paper windows . ."
d. "wide-eyed, i loitered near them."

i have read the novel roll of thunder hear my cry by mildred d. taylor.

1. this isn't like any other story i've read or watched because it is about a black family in mississippi right after slavery in the u.s. had become illegal. most of the novels i have read were about slavery. another point is that the author of the novel used symbolism in a way i haven't seen before. for example she uses thunder as something negative meaning something bad will happen. but by the end of the novel, she made thunder a good thing.

2.   one character that changed during the novel was stacey. stacey is the eldest child of the black logan family. around the begging of the novel stacey was avoiding the white boy jeremy simms. he had a dislike for jeremy's family. but at the end of the novel stacey began to like jeremy.

3. the author starts the novel with the problem that the children of the logan family have to avoid the white kid school bus while walking to school.

they bound logs together and built a raft. enkidu steered it down the great river. gilgamesh carried humbaba's head.

i really dont know the answer so i cant