Question

SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure

Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet
lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17-and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn and the brown old seaman
with the sabre cut first took up his lodging under our roof.
I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow-a tall,
strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken
nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. I remember him looking round the cover and whistling to himself as he did so, and
then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards:
And indeed bad as his clothes were and coarsely as he spoke, he had none of the appearance of a man who sailed before the mast, but
Which is the most likely reason the narrator includes this flashback in the passage?
1. To describe his first impression of the man.
2. To help readers predict what the man will do.
3. To show that he and the man are acquaintances.
4. To tell why the man came to the door of the inn.

Answer 1

[AI-generated answer — Bot GPT 3.5]

1. To describe his first impression of the man.