Read the excerpt from the monsters are due on maple street.

as they suddenly start toward the house. in this brief fraction of a moment they take the first step toward performing a metamorphosis that changes people from a group into a mob. they begin to head purposefully across the street toward the house at the end. steve stands in front of them. for a moment their fear almost turns their walk into a wild stampede but steve's voice, loud, incisive and commanding, makes them stop.

steve

wait a minute . . wait a minute! let's not be a mob!

the people stop as a group, seem to pause for a moment and then much more quietly and slowly start to walk across the street.

when a crowd gathers outside les���s house, steve comments, "let���s not be a mob! ��� what does this show about steve?

he has managed to remain much more calm and rational than the rest of his neighbors.
he has become the main instigator of the mob as they rush toward les goodman���s house.
he has been taken over by emotions and lost his ability to think sensibly.
he thinks the aliens are attacking the neighborhood and he must defend himself.

Which excerpt from the war of the worldseffectively reveals how the author relates the climax of the narrative through the narrator's thoughts? the war of the worldsall this had happened with such swiftness that i had stood motionless, dumbfounded and dazzled by the flashes of light. had that death swept through a full circle, it must inevitably have slain me in my surprise. but it passed and spared me, and left the night about me suddenly dark and unfamiliar. and then, with a renewed horror, i saw a round, black object bobbing up and down on the edge of the pit. it was the head of the shopman who had fallen in, but showing as a little black object against the hot western sun. at that time it was quite clear in my own mind that the thing had come from the planet mars, but i judged it improbable that it contained any living creature. i thought the unscrewing might be automatic. my mind ran fancifully on the possibilities of its containing manuscript, on the difficulties in translation that might arise, whether we should find coins and models in it, and so forth. yet it was a little too large for assurance on this idea. i felt an impatience to see it opened.