9 CHAPTER 11-THE SHE-WOLF, an excerpt
From White Rang
By Iack London
Breakfast eaten and the stim camp-outfit lashed to the sled, the men turned their backs on the cheery fire and launched out into the darkness. At once began to rise the cries that were fiercely sad-cries that
called through the darkness and cold to one another and answered back. Conversation ceased. Daylight ca
me at nine o'clock. At midday the sky to the south warmed to rose-colour, and marked where the bulge
of the earth intervened between the meridian sun and the northern world. But the rose-colour swiftly faded. The grey light of day that remained lasted until three o'clock, when it, too, faded, and the pall of the
Arctic night descended upon the lone and silent land.
As darkness came on, the hunting-cries to right and left and rear drew closer-so dose that more than once they sent surges of fear through the tolling dogs, throwing them into short-lived panics.
At the conclusion of one such panie, when he and Henry had got the dogs back in the traces, Bill sald:
"I wish they'd strike game somewheres, an' go away an' leave us alone."
"They do get on the nerves horrible, "Henry sympathized.
They spoke no more until camp was made.
Read this line from the story
... the men turned their backs on the Theery fire and launched out into the darkness.
What part of this line most clearly adds to the tension in the story? (5 points)
The contrast between the fire and the darkness
Using the word launched to describe the departure
The description of the men turning their backs
Ending the sentence on a dark note
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