PLEAS ASAP In paragraph 1, what is the author’s purpose for including the detail, “just weeks or maybe a month before the orphanage turned me into an old man”?

A.
to reveal to his audience that he spent the majority of his life at the orphanage, even after he became an adult

B.
to reflect on the harshness of living in an institution for too long and the lasting effects it can have on someone

C.
to reveal that time began to pass much too quickly for him once he began living at the orphanage

D.
to reflect on the many extraordinary experiences he had while at the orphanage

b. b. b. is the anoswer

frances ellen watkins harper writing was influenced by: b. the education she received growing up in the north.

she was born in baltimore, maryland, on september 24, 1825. after the death of her parents, her uncle reverend william watkins, a teacher at the academy for negro youth, raised and educated her. she also continued educating herself by accessing a library of the family she worked for, beginning writing poetry afterwards. as a civil rights activist and abolitionist, watkins greatly influenced her life and work.

i have no idea buudy for the points tho

so is this a rhetorical question?