When Buck is first harnessed to the sled, he is extremely humbled. In contrast, Dave and Sol-leks become excited about being harnessed to the sled. In this moment, the author is using to underline a theme.

you didn't provide the passage.

explanation:

seeing as this is your first question on i can see why you may have not known that you need to provide the passage.

without the passage, or even the name of the passage, we can not read the passage, therefore we can not determine when or how the pacing effects the tone.

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i think that the major difference is that it used to be modern