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.'

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 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.'

The correct answer is “I couldn't believe I was really doing this," Neto recalls.

Explanation:

Through these words, the reader can feel what Neto is feeling.

His nerves and his anxiety to face an important decision for him, which we do not know how he will end up, therefore generates suspense.

The reader, like Neto, is currently facing something that he does not know and that generates anxiety to see its result.

a simile is first defined as a type of speech that uses one thing or phrase with comparisons to things of an unrelated kind, often in order to make a more vivacious description. so of the phrases above, only the last one (i swear she cast a shadow white as stone) would be considered a simile, as a shadow white as stone takes two unrelated things and uses them in an interesting way.

explanation:

mark brainliest and have a great day!

fond of fighting is the answer