Question

Read the following passages:

But looking, I presently saw something stirring within the shadow. . . . Then something resembling a little gray snake, about the thickness of a walking stick, coiled up out of the writhing middle and wriggled in the air toward me and then another.

H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

Good heavens, something's wriggling out of the shadow like a gray snake. Now it's another one, and another. They look like tentacles to me.

Orson Welles's radio adaptation of War of the Worlds
Why might Welles have chosen to change the verbs in the radio broadcast to present tense?

A. In order to make the narrator have a bigger role in the story

B. In order to make the story feel more realistic

C. In order to make the tone feel less intense

D. In order to make the writing feels more artful and stylized

Answer 1

B. In order to make the story feel more realistic

Step-by-step explanation:

The author chose this storytelling style to help the listener better imagine and interact with the story