The detail that best indicates the author's purpose to create suspense is: "Only one of them looked like he was really listening." This line introduces uncertainty about the board members' reactions and raises the tension in the moment, leaving readers anxious about the outcome of Neto's presentation.
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?
"When I was finished, they thanked me for coming..."
Only one of them looked like he was really listening.
“I couldn't believe I was really doing this," Neto recalls.
I went home thinking, Well, at least I tried.
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