What thinking skills are associated with "Tweet and Describe"?

How does dr. king defend the claim he makes in paragraph 9

Which one event in the story almost caused them to turn back and give up? losing their donkeysthe descent into the volcanorunning into their first dead endlack of water

“what i heard was abominable,” said utterson. “it can make no change. you do not understand my position,” returned the doctor, with a certain incoherency of manner. “i am painfully situated, utterson; my position is a very strange—a very strange one. it is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.” –the strange case of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde, robert louis stevenson write two to three sentences explaining how this passage creates suspense.