Select the correct text in the passage.
Which portion of the text does the author use to create tension?
(2) The boy wearily dropped his heavy bundle and stood still, listening as the voice of crickets split the shadows and made the silence
audible. A tear wandered down his brown cheek. They were at supper now, he whispered-the father and old mother, away back yonder
beyond the night. They were far away; they would never be as near as once they had been, for he had stepped into the world. And the cat
and Old Billy-ah, but the world was a lonely thing, so wide and tall and empty! And so bare, so bitter bare! Somehow he had never
dreamed of the world as lonely before; he had fared forth to beckoning hands and luring, and to the eager hum of human voices, as of
some great, swelling music.
(3) Yet now he was alone; the empty night was closing all about him here in a strange land, and he was afraid. The bundle with his earthly
treasure had hung heavy and heavier on his shoulder; his little horde of money was tightly wadded in his sock, and the school lay hidden
somewhere far away in the shadows. He wondered how far it was; he looked and harkened, starting at his own heartbeats, and fearing
more and more the long dark fingers of the night.