From the text:
<span>"Well, I don't like to spread bad news," said the sheep, "but they're fattening you up because they're going to kill you, that's why."</span>
I will give you some comfort in this difficult time.
If the underlined word in the sentence is COMFORT. Then, its synonym is SOLACE.
Solace is defined as the alleviation of distress or discomfort. Thus, when you give solace, you give comfort.
The author shifts away from his personal journey because this is not a description of his personal journey, and to focus on it would be to detract from the facts and purpose of the story (Indian culture). The pollution is causing the building to deteriorate, and it is a casualty because it is a unintended consequence from humans living there.
I would say it would be dramatic because the audience knows something that the characters themselves do not or one character plus the audience knows something another character or characters do not.