read the excerpt.
“she came running along the shore, rapid and leaving no trace, like a leaf driven by the wind into the sea. my brother said gloomily, ‘go and take her; carry her into our boat.’ i lifted her in my arms. … i said, ‘i take you from those people. you came to the cry of my heart, but my arms take you into my boat against the will of the great! ’ … ‘let us be off,’ said my brother. ‘we are cast out and this boat is our country now--and the sea is our refuge.’”
in “the lagoon” by joseph conrad, which is the main plot event in arsat’s story?
arsat and his brother build a cabin in a lagoon.
arsat and his brother run away with diamelen.
arsat asks the white man to go fishing with the others.
arsat asks the mayan ruler for permission to marry diamelen.

Read the excerpt from the war of the worlds, in which the first martian exits the spacecraft.a sudden chill came over me. there was a loud shriek from a woman behind. i half turned, keeping my eyes fixed upon the cylinder still, from which other tentacles were now projecting, and began pushing my way back from the edge of the pit. i saw astonishment giving place to horror on the faces of the people about me. i looked again at the cylinder, and ungovernable terror gripped me. i stood petrified and staring.what option accurately analyzes the impact of the narrator's thoughts and actions on the tone of the excerpt? the war of the worldsa disdainful tone is created as the narrator ponders the ugliness of the tentacles and turns to the shrieking woman.a melancholy tone is created by the narrator's thoughts of fear and refusal to avert his eyes.a tone of determination is created when the narrator thinks of escape and backs away from the edge of the pit.a fearful tone is created through the narrator's thoughts of horror and his glance at the cylinder.