Greek stories typically end with great suffering to try to explain reasons to the reader why there are bad things in the world, not only that but they try to teach the reader lessons so most of them have suffering as endings as a way of showing that this could possibly lead to that.
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It helps the audience imagine the pain of the upcoming year in a way that they can connect which sticks out from President Roosevelt.
The answer would be that the tone is peaceful because it sounded like the lady gave him something and that's why he's saying thank you. It's not really joyful and the boy didn't do crazy things so that eliminates suspensful and joyful. The reason I didn't choose angry and violent is because even thought she shut the door, she didn't slam the door. So Peaceful is the answer
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I agree. Withered, "as though swept by fire," and "once so attractive" create a despairing tone.