Question

Read the excerpt from It's Our World, Too!: Young People Who Are Making a Difference. When they entered the board's meeting room, Neto was terrified. They were alone with the ten white men who were the members of the Marsing school board. "I couldn't believe I was really doing this," Neto recalls. "Then I heard Baldy say, 'Neto wants to talk with you about the football team.' "So I just started. I told them I was quitting and why. I told them word-for-word what I had heard. Only one of them looked like he was really listening. When I was finished, they thanked me for coming, but they didn't say they would do anything about it. I went home thinking, Well, at least I tried. Now they can't say nobody told them." Which detail from the excerpt best indicates that one of the author’s purposes in writing It's Our World, Too!: Young People Who Are Making a Difference was to create suspense?

Answer 1

Answer: The excerpt: Neto was terrified. They were alone with the ten white men who were the members of the Marsing school board. "I couldn't believe I was really doing this," best indicates the suspense that the author wanted to create.

Explanation: When writing a story, suspense must be used to surpass the reader's expectations. This is achieved by controlling information. In the text, the author started out describing Neto's nervousness and how scary the scenary was, using words as "alone" and "ten men". Moreover, Neto's words lead the leader to the peak of suspense, letting them wonder about the end of the events. The author best indicated his purpose by leaving what Neto had to say for the end.