The allusion to the apostle Judas, who betrayed Jesus warns listeners not to be deceived by the apparently mild British reaction to the colonists' petitions against tax laws.
Farmer, Nancy. The House of the Scorpion. New York: Atheneum for Young Readers, 2002. Print.
He struggles to regain control if his life after his brother took his dukebom from him.
So that the reader can get more absorbed in the passage .
There’s tension because the author wants the ready to know there’s tension