In your journal, practice a PATTR + TEAR paragraphing of "A Biologist's Manifesto for Preserving Life on Earth" by E. O. Wilson from The Language of Composition. (2nd edition: Use the selection "Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp" by Joy
Williams.)

“what i heard was abominable,” said utterson. “it can make no change. you do not understand my position,” returned the doctor, with a certain incoherency of manner. “i am painfully situated, utterson; my position is a very strange—a very strange one. it is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.” –the strange case of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde, robert louis stevenson write two to three sentences explaining how this passage creates suspense.