A creaking of the kind made by the weight carried by one foot after another along a wooden floor. I listened. I
felt the apertures of my ears distend with concentration. Again: the creaking. I was waiting for it, waiting to
hear if it indicated that feet were moving from room to room, coming up the passage-to my door. I have no
burglar bars, no gun under the pillow, but I have the same fears as people who do take these precautions,
and my windowpanes are thin as rime, could shatter like a wineglass. A woman was murdered (how do they
put it) in broad daylight in a house two blocks away, last year, and the fierce dogs who guarded an old
widower and his collection of antique clocks were strangled before he was knifed by a casual laborer he had
dismissed without pay
In this excerpt from "Once Upon a Time," how do the underlined lines create parallel structure?
They emphasize the reasons for gun control.
They emphasize the reasons for the narrator's fear.
They emphasize the danger in having antique collections.
They emphasize the need for community watch organizations.