When the subject of the sentence performs the action and comes before the verb, the sentence is in . When the person or thing acted upon comes before the verb, and the subject of the sentence follows the verb, the sentence is in. word bank:passive voice active voice

1st: passive, Next :active

Explanation:

the narrator is a first person, participant one, who describes in the simple past tense important and difficult events in his earlier life. he also provides temporal markers as the month (january) and the time (12: 30 pm). finally the account of his experience is very detailed, to the extent that a participant narrator would talk the same way about his experiences. a good example of such detail is the mention of the “bovril ration” which historically was a native american food adopted by european explorers in arctic and antarctic regions due to its high level of calories.