I don't know what story this is from or what is really happening; however, from what I can tell, the author uses the phrase "the annals of parental vigilance" to heavily imply that Daisy's parents are extremely rigid in how they raise her, in an orthodox fashion. "Annals" is defined as yearly record keeping, and "parental vigilance" means that the mother is one that is always watching and correcting her child (from what I can tell.
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When a character starts the work talking directly with the reader, we can perceive an affinity effect between narrator and reader, leaving the work more personal and with a more confident effect. The reader, then, begins to be part of the work, as a person who is being confidant of the narrator and receiving all the report first hand.
The use of speech to exchange of informal ideas, information etc.
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