Aunt Harriet never meant to say any of this when Elizabeth Ann could hear, but the little girl’s ears were as sharp as little gi
rls’ ears always are, and long before she was nine, she knew all about the opinion Aunt Harriet had of the Putney's. She did not know, to be sure, what “chores” were, but she took it confidently from Aunt Harriet’s voice that they were something very, very dreadful.Immersive Reader (10 Points)
In the given excerpt, the author has employed a 'third-person omniscient' point of view as the readers have knowledge about the thoughts, feelings, as well as, emotions of every character(Aunt Harriet, Elizabeth Ann). The descriptions displaying that Elizabeth knew what Aunt Harriet thinks about Putney while Aunt Harriet did not mean to say so. Thus, the readers are able to know what every character goes through. Thus, <u>option B</u> is the correct answer.
