Read this excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.I knew I could never let Mom hear the messages, because protecting her is one of my most important raisons d’être, so what I did was I took Dad’s emergency money from on top of his dresser, and I went to the Radio Shack on Amsterdam. It was on a TV there that I saw that the first building had fallen. I bought the exact same phone and ran home and recorded our greeting from the first phone onto it. I wrapped up the old phone in the scarf that Grandma was never able to finish because of my privacy, and I put that in a grocery bag, and I put that in a box, and I put that in another box, and I put that under a bunch of stuff in my closet, like my jewelry workbench and albums of foreign currencies.Which word best describes the tone of this excerpt?
The narrator describes hiding the phone in a careful sequence: wrapping it in a scarf, putting it in a grocery bag, then a box, then another box, and finally under other belongings. Those specific, step-by-step details make the tone methodical. Although the narrator is concealing the messages, the excerpt focuses more on the orderly process than on deceit.
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