Read the excerpt from section 2 of the espionage act, which was enacted by the congress of the united states on june 15, 1917. section 2 whoever, with intent or reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury or the united states or to the advantage of a foreign nation, communicated, delivers, or transmits, or attempts to, or aids, or induces another to, communicate, deliver or transmit, to any foreign government, or to any faction or party or military or naval force within a foreign country, whether recognized or unrecognized by the united states, or to any representative, officer, agent, employee, subject, or citizen thereof, either directly or indirectly and document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blue print, plan, map, model, note, instrument, appliance, or information relating to the national defence, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than twenty years. how does this excerpt relate to the plot of the the inheritors? it creates a shift in the mood, which was initially lighthearted, to one that is somber and tense. it characterizes emil, who is the first to mention the act, as one who exaggerates and worries unnecessarily. it establishes the setting by referring to acts of espionage that were only committed during certain periods in history. it strengthens the conflict by revealing the severity of the punishments that one convicted of spying will face.

This excerpt relates to the plot of "The Inheritors" in the way that it strengthens the conflict by revealing the severity of the punishments that one convicted of spying will face by mentioning specifically what will happen (at most 20 years) if they do something specified in the excerpt, which in this case is spying.

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It creates a shift in the mood, which was initially lighthearted, to one that is somber and tense.

The inheritors is a novel that narrates the story of neanderthals and its encounter with a group of homo sapiens, that thinks of them as uncivilized and savage.

source text: from the sketch here given it will be seen, that our good grandmothers differed considerably in their ideas of a fine figure, from their scantily dressed descendants of the present day. a fine lady, in those times, waddled under more clothes even on a fair summer's day, than would have clad the whole bevy of a modern ball room. nor were they the less admired by the gentlemen in consequence thereof. on the contrary, the greatness of a lover's passion seemed to increase in proportion to the magnitude of its object—and a voluminous damsel, arrayed in a dozen of petticoats, was declared by a low-dutch sonnetteer of the province, to be radiant as a sunflower, and luxuriant as a full blown cabbage. certain it is, that in those days, the heart of a lover could not contain more than one lady at a time; whereas the heart of a modern gallant has often room enough to accommodate half a dozen - - the reason of which i conclude to be, either that the hearts of the gentlemen have grown larger, or the persons of the ladies smaller — this however is a question for physiologists to determine. add punctuation to the following excerpt. writing under the name of diedrich knickerbocker washington irving aimed his potent satire at as diverse topics as political rivals such as thomas jefferson to the very ideal of looking back on the past affectionately: a fine lady, in those times, waddled under more clothes even on a fair summer's day, than would have clad the whole bevy of a modern ball room. a voluminous damsel, arrayed in a dozen of petticoats, was declared by a low-dutch sonnetteer of the province, to be radiant as a sunflower, and luxuriant as a full blown cabbage. in those days, the heart of a lover could not contain more than one lady at a time; whereas the heart of a modern gallant has often room enough to accommodate half a dozen

i believe that dan is so anxious because he dose not know what awaits him when he gets there. but i dont know to be honest