Robert knew the girl, and he talked to her a little in the boat. no one present understood what they said. her name was mariequita. she had a round, sly, piquant face and pretty black eyes. her hands were small, and she kept them folded over the handle of her basket. her feet were broad and coarse. she did not strive to hide them. edna looked at her feet, and noticed the sand and slime between her brown toes. which best explains why the excerpt is an example of realism?
(a)-characters are simplified and play a secondary role to a fast-paced plot with lots of action.
(b)-the ways in which characters interact depicts an optimistic outlook on the human condition.
(c)-the ways in which characters from different social classes perceive and treat each other are addressed.
(d)-characters are described with the use of powerful language that the reader visualize the scene.

Read the excerpt from the war of the worlds, in which the first martian exits the spacecraft. a sudden chill came over me. there was a loud shriek from a woman behind. i half turned, keeping my eyes fixed upon the cylinder still, from which other tentacles were now projecting, and began pushing my way back from the edge of the pit. i saw astonishment giving place to horror on the faces of the people about me. i looked again at the cylinder, and ungovernable terror gripped me. i stood petrified and staring. what option accurately analyzes the impact of the narrator's thoughts and actions on the tone of the excerpt? the war of the worldsa disdainful tone is created as the narrator ponders the ugliness of the tentacles and turns to the shrieking woman. a melancholy tone is created by the narrator's thoughts of fear and refusal to avert his eyes. a tone of determination is created when the narrator thinks of escape and backs away from the edge of the pit. a fearful tone is created through the narrator's thoughts of horror and his glance at the cylinder.