Answer:
It demonstrates that the narrator is surrounded by nature.
Explanation:
The term face to face means you're right up close to something, it is right in front of your nose. The fact that the narrator is describing so many elements as being face to face with him shows that nature is absolutely everywhere around him, so close.
The answer would be C as in the passage it has a repeating theme of mentioning how the stories bring you into the world of the Greeks
Mafatu pushes them in a barrow
I think that it is pardoning Nixon.