25 POINTS PLESE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In a paragraph of at least three sentences, explain the mood of this excerpt from Littl
e Brother. Provide details from the text to support your answer. I kept walking, my heart thumping in my chest. I'd been expecting this since I started. I'd been expecting the DHS to figure out what I was doing. I took every precaution, but Severe-Haircut woman had told me that she'd be watching me. She'd told me I was a marked man. I realized that I'd been waiting to get picked up and taken back to jail. Why not? Why should Darryl be in jail and not me? What did I have going for me? I hadn't even had the guts to tell my parents—or his—what had really happened to us.
He is worried, nervous and anxious to be put in jail again. He expresses that his heart is beating strongly in his chest. Nor has he had the courage to tell what really happened.
It is a simile because it is a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.
