5. author's tone - i thought of sylvia and evie and sandy and two-bit's many blondes.
they were the only kind of girls that would look at us, i thought. tough, loud girls
who wore too much eye makeup and giggled and swore too much.
the author's tone (through the narrator) seems to be: olively depressed odiscontent
now circle three words or phrases in the passage that best convey this tone.

How does this excerpt develop the central idea that espionage during the civil war was often carried out by untrained citizens? it enhances the reader’s understanding by explaining why training was unnecessary. it changes the reader’s perception of what information a spy was able to obtain. it explains an ordinary person’s motivation for conducting espionage against the enemy. it adds moral complexity to espionage, due to the use of secret and dangerous methods.