B. I can hear him from far away -- as if he were
coming to us.
Yea, this gotta be the ryt one ~~
By not providing a great deal of detail about the "cylinder" in his radio production of War of the Worlds Welles helped to keep the origin of the alien invaders a mystery. Welles probably chose to do such in order to keep the audience in suspense and to help convince them that the invasion is actually happening.
The tone of this excerpt from Maureen Daly's famous story "Sixteen" is primarily intimate, but also frank, sentimental, chatty, colloquial, and a little bit impassioned. The narrator is describing, informally and enthusiastically, a casual, but seemingly very cherished, encounter with a boy, and she appears to be very comfortable sharing her intimate feelings with her interlocutor, judging by some of her expressions - "don't be silly, I told you before, I get around," "Don't you see? This was different," or "It was all so lovely."
Is the structure of the text which is the first factor.
The square roots of 576 are +24 and -24.