Which of the following explains best the sentence in the passage “I was almost a part of it”?

Question

PASSAGE

For fourteen and a half months I lived in my little cell or room in the Dehradun jail, and I began to feel as if I was almost a part of it. I was familiar with every bit of it, I knew every mark and dent on the whitewashed walls and on the uneven floor and the ceiling with its moth-eaten rafters. In the little yard outside I greeted little tufts of grass and odd bits of stone as old friends. I was not alone in my cell, for several colonies of wasp and hornets lived there, and many lizards found a home behind the rafters, emerging in the evenings in search of prey.

Which of the following explains best the sentence in the passage “I was almost a part of it”? 

(a) I was not alone in the cell. 

(b) I was familiar with every bit of the cell. 

(c) I greeted little tufts of grass like old friends. 

(d) I felt quite at home in the cell.

Answer 1

(b) When the narrator says that he was “almost a part of it” he means that he was familiar with every corner of the cell. 

(a) It is true that he was not alone in the cell; there were lots of insects to keep him company. But this is not the meaning conveyed by the quoted text. 

The same goes for options (c) and (d).