The tone in a story can be joyful, serious, humorous, sad, threatening, formal, informal, pessimistic, and optimistic. Your tone in writing will be reflective of your mood as you are writing.
Amal's tone will be optimistic and He could sound pretentious while Marjane's tone will be a little pessimistic. Amal will be a little ostentotious while Marjane will be more humble. Amal will sound more secure while Marjane will sound more insecure due to her issues.
I believe it would be the second one hope this helps!
To show that the stranger was impatient and insistent<span> </span>
I suppose the underlined word is respite. Its closest word in meaning is break. As a noun, respite means a short period of relief or rest. From the context, we can see here that the instructors had quite a hard job of taming the canines, so they needed to use any chance they had to get some short rest before going on. Vacation is too long a rest; beverage doesn't have much to do with rest; and payment is just out of context.
