The tone will be more negative and depressing is the correct answer.
Explanation:
In this question there are two important elements: the typical American town in the 1950s and a prison camp in WWII, which took place between 1939 and 1945. It is important to indicate that the tone is the attitude chosen by the writer toward an audience or a subject. Due to the terrible context (WWII), the tone will be more negative and depressing.
The question is incomplete. Based on the full question, it is statistical.
This is an excerpt from Stephen Levitt and Stephen Dubner's Freakonomics.
The excerpt gives the statistical data of the wrestlers. The win-loss percentage between 7-7 wrestlers and 8-6 wrestlers is judged when either one of them is in the bubble the next time.
There will not be pressure in the individual match. They win only 40% of the rematches.