Characterization as a literary device plays a vital role in conveying the author's intended message to the audience by offering a lively touch to them that would serve the author's purpose or reason for which he/she has created the particular work as it helps portray the characters in the light he/she wants to introduce or elaborate them.
In the given excerpt from 'Enrique's journey', the author employs this device in order to serve his purpose to represent 'Enrique as resourceful' that would help create a description which would promote a positive image of Enrique in the minds of the readers and it would further aid to evoke the 'intended response' from the audience as they are able to visualize Enrique as a resourceful person. Thus, <u>option B</u> is the correct answer.
