20 points! brainlisted! in this excerpt from section xviii of the way to rainy mountain, the author describes his relationship to the space around him: you could see far and wide even at night, by the light of the moon; there was nothing to stand in your way. and when the season turned and it was necessary to move back into the house, there was a sense of confinement and depression for a time. what does this description convey about the author? he suffers from depression when he is at rainy mountain. he feels tied to the land and to the weather in which he grew up. he feels confined by the space all around him. he knows that summer is only an illusion.

He feels tied to the land and to the weather in which he grew up.

In this excerpt, the author describes how he found it difficult sometimes to be constrained by the house after enjoying all the space outside. He does not suffer from depression, as depression is a chemical imbalance, and the author says his sadness only lasted a while and was due to confinement. He also does not feel confined by all the space, but by the lack of it. Finally, he does not claim that summer is an illusion, simply that seasons change. However, the fact that he feels so differently when inside the house shows how comfortable and connected he feels to the land he grew up in.

your answer is c) experiments with water vapor showed that elements combine in specific proportions.