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Look closely at this line: "Jem stared at me so long I asked what was the matter, but got nothing, scout for an answer." What does the elimination of the quotation punctuation do for this passage.?

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I think it would make it in the POV of the writer and not the character (?)
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it makes it seem like what is actually happening is being said or vice versa
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