The author uses first person perspective to help create suspense in this passage.
Having the author experience the events along with the narrator creates a sense of calm and happiness at first, lulling the narrator (and the reader) into a sense of comfort. Then, seeing the surprise and the horror of her older face the narrator and the reader discover it together and the mood shifts instantly.
It is the falling action.
Peer means to look keenly or with difficulty at someone or something.
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a steep temperature gradient in a body of water such as a lake, marked by a layer above and below which the water is at different temperatures
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