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how does Mary run away, helping, or supporting juniors?
Exposition provides reader with information, sometimes it is nonessential info and can be revealed simply with exposition dialogue
In American Romantic Literature the “journey” means "leaving civilization and entering the universe of nature".
The American Romantic period, which kept going from around 1830-70, was a period of quick extension and development in the U S that energized intuition, creative ability and independence in writing. This writing esteems feeling and intuition over reason.
To Guide or instruct because in context its saying guiding or instructing love