5. Summarize the way in which the narrator builds suspense about her wages in paragraphs 19-33. America and I

The narrator creates suspense by showing how indifferent her bosses seem to pay her wages, while she was anxiously waiting to receive her money.

Explanation:

In "America and I" the author tells her story when she leaves Russia for America in search of freedom and better economic conditions. In paragraph 19-33, the author shows how happy she was for the first payday he got for his first job in America.

The author tells how she is highly anxious and made several plans about what she would do with the money, but as time went by, her bosses seemed totally indifferent and did not make any payments, which makes the author even more anxious and leaves a suspense in the narrative, because the reader begins to realize that something wrong is happening, but does not know what it is.