What tone does this passage convey? no matter how many times jaime failed, he would try again. he knew if he just kept practicing, he would eventually succeed. pessimistic optimistic humorous satirical

B) optimistic.

Explanation: The tone of a text or sentence is the author's or speaker's attitude towards the audience, the subject or even the characters of the text. There are many different kinds of tones, like: positive, negative, objective, sad, angry, etc. From the given options, the one that represents the tone that the passage conveys, is the corresponding to option B: optimistic, because it says that Jaime would always try again when he fails, and he knows that he will, eventually, succeed.

the first step is to convey the appropriate emotions.

the purpose of the heading in the passage is to identify who is telling the story.

this excerpt is part of the book sugar changed the world (2010) written by marc aronson and marina budhos. as the book has been written by two people, the heading "marc" indicates that this specific excerpt is being narrated by aronson. in the fragment, marc describes his grandfather's story after hearing it from his cousin. however, there are other excerpts where budhos is the one that tells the story of her family.

aronson and budhos, who are husband and wife in real life, decided to write sugar changed the world when they found out how sugar, which had an important role in slavery and economy, changed their ancestors' lives.