The level of diction which is typically used in newspapers and magazines is A. informal.
You don't want to sound too formal if you are talking about fashion or sport, etc. which is why you use the colloquial language to talk to your audience.
State of being. Action is a movement
It would be, during winter, the birds eat at the feeder on the porch. because its modifying the sentence by saying during the winter.
The answer is: to recall Zeitoun’s foreign birth and the universality of struggles against nature
Zeitoun grown up in a coastal town, Jableh, in Syria, his father was a ship captain and when he and his brother drown to be sailor as well, after many year in the sea he stablishes in New Orleans, in the story is describes the great storm that evokes his memory of the island, this shows Zeitoun birth town and also that the nature forces universality.
