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.
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-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 story feel more realistic
B. In order to make the writing feels more artful and stylized
C. In order to make the tone feel less intense
D. In order to make the narrator have a bigger role in the story