The specific aspect of literary criticism that demonstrates the author's message as significant or worthwhile is the author-based approach. It is also called the Expressive Theory. It depicts that the best interpretation of a text (poem, novel, fictional stories, etc) comes from the author himself.
The reader-based approach is not entirely reliable because every reader may see a text in a different perspective. There are even cases wherein readers interpret a text in a deep, deep way while the author meant everything in the literal sense. Everything varies from case to case.
I believe the answer is C. motivation.
When you respect yourself, you're also indirectly respecting others :))
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The speaker is talking about their journey and how it isn't to accomplish anything. In their perspective, they are scaling a "metaphorical mountain" for no specific reason.
I dont know but i’ma say E