The correct answer is that the author tone towards Aaron is suspense and fear. Taken from the short story “<em>Zlateh the Goat</em>” written by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1966), this excerpt narrates the scene in which Aaron is scared because a severe storm is coming and he and the goat, Zlateh, are in danger without a shelter to stay safe. The tone of a writing is the attitude of the author towards a subject and it can be conveyed through words carefully chosen by the writer. Throughout the previous passages, together with this excerpt, the author describes the <u>suspense and fear tone</u> with the narration of the upcoming storm and their anxiety to find shelter. They finally find shelter in “<em>a large haystack which the snow had blanketed</em>”. Then, as they survive the storm, the tone of the narrative changes to a cheerful one until the end of the story.