This part of the excerpt seems to be correct as it reveals that the diet alone is responsible for his ninth birthday: "It had plenty of room to expand, thanks to the spare diet of the establishment; and perhaps to this circumstance may be attributed his having any ninth birth-day at all."
<u>An author use of a disturbed first person narrator can help create in a gothic story suspense and tension.</u>
<em>Gothic stories are characterized by the moods of suspense and tension. This is because the setting tends to be dark and dreary and mysterious, and we don't know what's going to happen next. If the narrator is talking is telling the story from the person point of view, and his or her voice is disturbed in addition to that, the mood is amplified.</em>
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<u><em>Brainly pls</em></u>
Answer:
overall lesson of a story
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