input: Text: The Sense of Wonder By MILTON LESSER Illustrated by HARRY ROSENBAUM When nobody aboard ship remembers where it's going, how can they tell when it has arrived? Every day for a week now, Rikud had come to the viewport to watch the great changeless sweep of space. He could not quite explain the feelings within him; they were so alien, so unnatural. But ever since the engines somewhere in the rear of the world had changed their tone, from the steady whining Rikud had heard all twenty-five years of his life, to the sullen roar that came to his ears now, the feelings had grown. If anyone else had noticed the change, he failed to mention it. This disturbed Rikud, although he could not tell why. And, because he had realized this odd difference in himself, he kept it locked up inside him. Today, space looked somehow different. The stars—it was a meaningless concept to Rikud, but that was what everyone called the bright pinpoints of light on the black backdrop in the viewport—were not apparent in the speckled profusion Rikud had always known. Instead, there was more of the blackness, and one very bright star set apart by itself in the middle of the viewport. If he had understood the term, Rikud would have told himself this was odd. His head ached with the half-born thought. It was—it was—what was it? Someone was clomping up the companionway behind Rikud. He turned and greeted gray-haired old Chuls. "In five more years
  Question: The tone of the story, especially towards its end, is delivered very simplistically, in an almost child-like fashion.  This is to show that the story
  
   (A) is like a fable.  It offers a moral to the story and teaches a truth about society.
   (B) is like a fairy-tale because the characters go on a magical journey, but its main purpose as a story is to decieve.
   (C) is like a ghost story.  It frightens the reader by playing on the dark and supernatural.
   (D) is like mythology because it is folklore that explains society's origins.
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output: <extra_id_0> is like a fable.  It offers a moral to the story and teaches a truth about society.<extra_id_1>