Read the excerpt from "Object Lesson, Part 2."

And there it was. There it was!

This strip had been cut from the top of the comic sheet. On the margin appeared the name of a New York newspaper and the date April 24, 1955.

How does the author add tension in this excerpt?

a. with the protagonist’s conflict
b. with an unexplained idea
c. with a sense of urgency
d. with an obstacle to achieving a goal

unexplained data B)

Explanation:

MY PROOF (LOL NOBODY SAYS THEIR EXPLANATION)

in the passage its says "its not here"!! bam not here = unexplainned proof

thank me later ;)

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

ok so it would be d because that would catch attention and make them what to read it.