Read this passage from "the city without us" by alan weisman:
in some places, the track emerges from the second stories
of warehouses it once serviced into elevated lanes of wild
crocuses, irises, evening primrose, asters, and queen
anne's lace. so many new yorkers, glancing down from
windows in chelsea's art district, were moved by the sight
of this untended, flowering green ribbon, prophetically and
swiftly laying claim to a dead slice of their city, that it was
dubbed the high line and officially designated a park.
which statement best describes how the author develops the tone in this
passage?

13 points : ) which two aspects of scrooge's character does this excerpt from a christmas carol by charles dickens reveal? "i wish to be left alone," said scrooge. "since you ask me what i wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. i don’t make merry myself at christmas and i can't afford to make idle people merry. i to support the establishments i have mentioned—they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there." "many can’t go there; and many would rather die." "if they would rather die," said scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. besides—excuse me—i don't know that." "but you might know it," observed the gentleman. his stingy attitude and conduct his distrust of government institutions his indifference to others' suffering his support for the community