Mythology and purpose
ea called on marduk, a great warrior god, saying that if what is the purpose of this passage from the myth?
marduk should be victorious, he would be the lord of all
to explain how the first humans came to exist on
the gods. a great battle ensued, with gods raging against earth
each other. marduk reached tiamat, the embodiment of
chaos, and smashed her head with his great club. he
to explain how the heavens, earth, and rivers were
1 sliced her in half, making the north wind bear her pieces created
away. from each half of her ribs he created the vault of
teated the vault of
10
to explain how humans should act toward one
the heavens and the earth. her weeping eyes became
another
sacred rivers, and tiamat was no more.
- "enuma elish,"
early babylonian myth

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.