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Answer:
The author's use of the first person to convey the story allows readers to go along for the ride into madness and cultivates a certain amount of sympathy for the narrator and her plight. The constant use of "I" puts us right in the narrator's head and allows us to empathize with her
The stop from succumbing to it by putting beeswax in their ears. I'm pretty sure hope it helps
The theme is the message an author is trying to send, or the main idea. The author's purpose is the reason an author writes something, whether it be to inform, entertain, etc.