"but her husband was on his hands and knees groping wildly on the floor in search of the paw. if he could only find it before the thing outside got in. a perfect fusillade of knocks reverberated through the house, and he heard the scraping of a chair as his wife put it down in the passage against the door." which is not a way the author builds suspense in these sentences? a. by alluding to the visitor as being herbert b. by describing mrs. white's scraping the chair c. by explaining how the knocks echo through the house d. by making it difficult for mr. white to find the paw

The author most likely included these details in order to read the excerpt from "justin lebo." it was a bmx bike with a twenty-inch trame. its original color was buried beneath five or six coats of gunky paint. now it showed up as sort of a rusted red. everything the grips, the pedals, the brakes, the seat, the spokes-were bent or broken, twisted and rusted, highlight the amount of money justin had to spend to restore the bicycle llustrate why justin wanted to give the bicycle away to someone else. emphasize how hard justin had to work to restore the bicycle. show why justin may have made a mistake in buying this bicycle