The sentence from paragraph 19 of Passage 2 that highlights the idea that Stine strives for readers to interact with the story is:
"In the Goosebumps books, I did as little characterization as possible..." -because when you are writing scary books, you want the kid reading it to feel like they are experiencing the story."
<h3>What is Characterization?</h3>
Characterization refers to the manner in which a writer presents the actors in a story. He could clearly state their attributes or allow readers to deduce these based on their actions or thoughts.
In the third option above, we find that the author's reason for using little characterization was because he wanted the readers to feel like they are experiencing the story. So, option C is right.
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Although the story does not refer to a special name, lets see that the place where Santiago goes fishing is the Caribbean Sea, in a town near Havana Cuba. The hut of Santiago always had proximity to the sea, due to its fishing activity it is perceived that it lived very close to the sea.
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