What speech are you talking about
It's first person! Third person is from an outside narrator, 2nd person is the author talking to the reader, and fourth person doesn't exist. :)
Answer:
"before"
Explanation:
because it told us the pre means before you can substitute the "pre-" in prehistorie to figure out the meaning.
<span>
I became, in short, the gangling farmer-boy my aunt had known, C. Scourged with chilblains and bashfulness, my hands cracked and raw from corn husking.
Scourge is something that causes suffering.</span>
