A. Practice Tasks Task 1. Can you tell what narrative element is highlighted in the following excerpts? Write your answer in your notebook. 1. He thought about Marian. She had left him nine years ago after five years of marriage. He was fifty-two now; that would make her just under forty. Marian had dreams of becoming a musician, a folksinger (Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County) 2. I’d be lying if I told you I wasn’t afraid. I don’t want to die, and thanks to my parents—my mother lived to ninety-six—I long assumed that I was genetically capable of growing even older than I already am. Until a few months ago, I fully believed I had half a dozen good years left. Well, maybe not good years. That’s not the way it works at my age. I’ve been disintegrating for a while now—heart, joints, kidneys, bits, and pieces