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how does the inclusion of a long paragraph at the beginning of this passage affect the reader’s interpretation of the text?

it presents the narrator’s extensive background to explain why he finds his journey so difficult to undertake.

it repeats a single idea to demonstrate the narrator’s confused and dangerous state of mind.

it the reader become immersed in the narrator’s experience through the use of an uninterrupted description.

it shows the reader how the narrator’s mood is changeable like the foreign rivers that he travels.