It should be A because if you aren’t evaluating the text based on your opinion it’s main focal point should be the writing itself and how it was put together
It's going to be setting. Although it was using past pretenses like "was" it isn't a backstory, it wasn't describing the characters or any event. It was only describing the room, the setting. Hope this helps :).
The correct answer for the question that is being presented above is this one: "Looking through the boat's glass bottom, we saw brightly colored fish and even a small shark swim past us." The sentence that has a mismatch between subject and modifier is this "<span>Looking through the boat's glass bottom, we saw brightly colored fish and even a small shark swim past us."</span>
I think its C.) because in the last sentence it states,"this band of followers became his "Merry Man"