His legacy to us is not only powerful, vibrant painting but also articulate, poetic letters.
what does legacy mean in this context?

memorabilia handed down to us from the past
old people
a retirement home
work that people have done over the years

idk i just need the points

the narrator is a first person, participant one, who describes in the simple past tense important and difficult events in his earlier life. he also provides temporal markers as the month (january) and the time (12: 30 pm). finally the account of his experience is very detailed, to the extent that a participant narrator would talk the same way about his experiences. a good example of such detail is the mention of the “bovril ration” which historically was a native american food adopted by european explorers in arctic and antarctic regions due to its high level of calories.