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Read the excerpt from "Homesick".

Sometimes old women knelt on the riverbank, begging the River God to return a son or grandson who may have drowned. They would wail and beat the earth to make the River God pay attention, but I knew how busy the River God must be. All those people on the Yangtse River!

What is the tone of this excerpt?

despairing

hopeful

annoyed

contented