"Until one moming in mid-November of 1959, few Americans in fact, few Kansanshad ever
heard of Holcomb. Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the
yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings,
had never stopped there. The inhabitants of the village, numbering two hundred and seventy, were
satisfied that this should be so, quite content to exist inside ordinary life-to work, to hunt, to
watch television, to attend school socials, choir practice, meetings of the 4-H Club" (5).
What does the above quote imply about Holcomb as the site of a quadruple murder?(English)

Read the excerpt from the war of the worlds, in which the first martian exits the spacecraft.a sudden chill came over me. there was a loud shriek from a woman behind. i half turned, keeping my eyes fixed upon the cylinder still, from which other tentacles were now projecting, and began pushing my way back from the edge of the pit. i saw astonishment giving place to horror on the faces of the people about me. i looked again at the cylinder, and ungovernable terror gripped me. i stood petrified and staring.what option accurately analyzes the impact of the narrator's thoughts and actions on the tone of the excerpt? the war of the worldsa disdainful tone is created as the narrator ponders the ugliness of the tentacles and turns to the shrieking woman.a melancholy tone is created by the narrator's thoughts of fear and refusal to avert his eyes.a tone of determination is created when the narrator thinks of escape and backs away from the edge of the pit.a fearful tone is created through the narrator's thoughts of horror and his glance at the cylinder.