Question

"Here's the thing. Now that you've helped me, its really dangerous. If you get caught, I'll get caught. They'll get anything you know out of you—" I held up my hand to forestall their protests. "No, stop. You haven't been through it. Everyone talks. Everyone breaks. If you're ever caught you tell them everything, right away, as fast as you can, as much as you can. They'll get it all eventually anyway. That's how they work."

Answer 1

"But you won't get caught, and here's why: you're not jammers anymore. You are retired from active duty. You're a—" I fished in my memory for vocabulary words culled from spy thrillers—"you're a sleeper cell. Stand down. Go back to being normal kids. One way or another, I'm going to break this thing, break it wide open, end it. Or it will get me, finally do me in. If you don't hear from me within 72 hours, assume they got me. Do whatever you want then. But for the next three days—and forever, if I do what I'm trying to do—stand down. Will you promise me that?"

Answer 2

What mood does the author create with the pacing in this example?

Light-hearted

Desperate

Mysterious

Prideful

Answer 3

Now, I haven't read the book, so I don't know what the context is, but here's my best shot!:

The narrator seems to be trying to convince a group of kids of a number of things, and when he says, "I fished in my memory for some vocabulary words culled from spy thrillers..." it seems to me that he is trying really hard to convince these kids- maybe even make it sound cooler to them in order to be more persuasive.

So keeping in mind that he's being persuasive and really seems to want the kids to listen to him, "lighthearted" definitely isn't the term, and he's pretty clear about what he wants, so "mysterious" isn't it either, and he doesn't have much obvious pride in anything in his words. By process of elimination, "desperate" is the best description of this man's intent. Hope that helped, I thought that analyzing it with you was better than bluntly saying it. :)

Answer 4

so what is the answer?