Read the excerpt below and answer the question. When I think of the hometown of my youth, all that seem to remember is dust - the brown, crumbly dust of late summer - arid, sterile, dust that gets into the eyes and makes them water, gets into the throat and between the toes of bare brown feet.

Which story element does the excerpt above best develop?

Setting

Climax

Conflict

Characters

It describes the setting of the excerpt because it describing the dust and season.

It is not the climax because it isn't the most intense part of the story.

It is not the conflict because it's a flashback of the narrator's hometown. However the conflict could seem that it is very dry, but how would the protagonist solve that problem. Drink some water?

Lastly, It is not describing the characters of the excerpt because the main focus is on the hometown of the narrator.