The answer is Abandoned.
Since she <u>Needed</u> to leave she <u>Abandoned</u> the pumpkin patch which means to leave behind for a reason.
An author might chose a first person narrator, because the first person narrator has a first person view of whatever the story is talking about. So a first person narrator makes an author more reliable and makes the story more personal.
If i am reading this correctly, the answer is object predicate.
