This is third person point of view, omniscient - you're seeing Mario from the
outside instead of hearing him say "I am reading a book."
What this statement means is that even if people are speaking bad on your name do not live up to the bad things they said about you. Or in other words prove them wrong.
43) B. 44) B or C (B A reliable narrator is one who has a credible, authoritative voice in a narrative. C An unreliable narrator is a narrator, whether in literature, film, or theatre, whose credibility has been seriously compromised.)
It's using words with its proper meaning , it's a direct word that defines other English languages
